Harry's alleged debt to Dumbledore and Snape WAS: Re: Chapter Discussion

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190826



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dorothy dankanyin" <ddankanyin at ...> wrote:
>
> > Alla:
> >
> > Yes, I am familiar with all these quotes, but that only makes me
> > strongly disagree with JKR, that's all. 
> 
> Dorothy:
>   I understand your feelings, but if you disagree with JKR, and she wrote the books, then there is obvious bias against the whole thing.  Yes?
>   Think peace,
>    Dorothy
>
Nikkalmati

JKR wrote the books and sent them out into the world, yes.  That does not insulate them from fair literary criticism.  (I would not consider it fair to criticise them because they deal with witchcraft, or because they contain characters derived from mythology and are therefore not "original", for example). They also have to stand on their own.  She cannot revise them now.  What she did may not be what she intended.  We know she was surprised and appalled that people actually liked Draco and even Snape, but the readers' reactions are valid even if she did not expect them.

Nikkalmati