[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 181893

Lenore ******* ** **** **** *** On 05/03/2008 10:47:

Lee:
> So hang the legalities and Apparate out anyway.

Lenore:
> I totally agree. They could have easily had the Seven Apparitions,

A nit first (not so much picking, just pointing out): it's apparAtion, 
not apparItion. And yes, most of my fingers are pointing back at myself; 
that is, when they're not busy hitting the backspace key as I, too, 
mistype the word.

Lenore:
> The entire Seven Potters plan strikes me as less than brilliant,

Well, I don't think JKR is going to go down in history for the 
cleverness of her plots. We'll leave that to Agatha Christie.

Lee:
> a complaint about the attribution line my

Lenore:
> It would bother me if member pressures were to cause this group
> to lose any of its variety, which is truly its spice. Surely, Lee's line
> costs nothing in terms of tolerance.

Thanks for the defense, Lenore. However, I wasn't offended or off-put at 
all, just caught by surprise. In fact, several others have now echoed 
the original complaint.

I feel like I'm staring at one of those SIRDS MagicEye images that were 
so popular ten years ago. Everyone around me is telling me they see an 
image but I, stare as I might, can't see it. I believe it's there, 
because everyone else says so, but blimey if I can see it.

In any case, I'm neither offended myself nor feeling pressured over it. 
I'm really finding it interesting as an example of the disconnect 
between what an author writes and what an audience might perceive in 
spite of the author's best intentions. Perhaps this is the same 
disconnect that exists between JKR's interviews and the canon.

In any case, I'm not terribly attached to my attribution line, so 
changing it isn't a matter of much import. I try to maintain civility in 
all my posts. I'd like to avoid unintentionally sabotaging my own efforts.

Well, gotta go. My daughter's been demanding ice cream for the last half 
hour, and she won't be put off any longer :-)

CJ