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

[dorothy dankanyin]

No: HPFGUIDX 190830


>> > 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?
>>
> 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.

Dorothy:
  I thought that Alla's disagreement was with what JKR said about 
what she wrote, not specifically what she wrote in the first place.  
Of course everyone's free to read into anything and interpret it in 
their own way, surprising the author or not.  I think that's what's 
made this series so interesting for so many of us.
  Think peace,
   Dorothy