Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 180245

Eggplant: "Although I would not agree with it, saying you don't enjoy
the book is not screwy; However claiming that JKR has become power mad
and using perfectly innocuous interviews of her as "proof" of it seems
pretty screwy to me."

Eggplant again: "And saying you've lost all respect for someone and
she is an example of the Peter Principle in action seems pretty
vitriolic to me."

Not liking how certain plot elements worked out or how JKR explained
them is totally, completely okay. The criticisms are often valid. I am
amazed at the harshness of the reaction to them and how easy it is for
the author of the most successful series in publishing history to lose
all respectability. I think we live in an era of harsh criticism for
anybody who actually achieves something.

"Eggplant, who is nonplussed at the intense rage over some tiny
inconsistencies even if most of them were real (they're not) and
thinks there must be something more at work here; and who has a hunch
that the anger would be a bit less if JKR had just said Dumbledore was
straight."

I don't know that the gay thing was the factor here; JKR answered
somebody's question and there was this big controversy. There
shouldn't be one, because DD's orientation is unimportant. It's only
because of the richness of the story that people want to know things
like this, or that we pick at inconsistencies so rabidly.

Jim Ferer, whose respect for JKR is very high, indeed.