Wands and Wizards...Again (Was: Epilogue ...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 183581

Kate:
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> Apparently it is fine for Harry to sneer, attack, be totally rude
> (for example to Narcissa Malfoy in Half Blood Prince), but not for
> anyone else to do it.

Alla:

Who advanced this argument?

Kate:
> It spoils the books for me.  I think J K Rowling took a wrong turn
> about half way through the series.  I am sad that some readers seem
> to have taken that turn with her.


Alla:

J.K. Rowling took a wrong turn half way through the series... I guess 
the wrong turn would be that she told the story that she wanted to 
tell and not the story that some readers wanted her to tell. I 
believe that this is a sign of a good writer and courageous writer, 
who listens to her inner voice and not to everybody else.

Oh, and yes, I am one of the readers who have taken that "wrong" turn 
with her. But please do not be sad about me at least. I am quite 
fine, thank you. 

For years when I participated in Snape/Harry debates, I absolutely 
refused to think that people who think that how Snape treats Harry 
and Neville support child abuse in RL or some rubbish like that. 
Because I thought that cheering for fictional character means just 
that cheering for fictional character.

But apparently it is quite all right to think that people who 
**understand** not excuse, mind you, **understand** why the teenager 
who just listened to nasty stories of what Amicus did to his fellow 
students, who already had watched his nearest and dearest fall in the 
battle, who saw Neville's scars, and who watched Amicus spat on his 
head of the house and could not cope with this seeming nothing, but 
IMO last drop, apparently it is quite all right to think that 
sympathizing with what this teenager did, somehow reflect poorly on 
the readers.

Not in my opinion. 

Alla