OT: Intro Profile

[davewitley]

Catherine wrote:

> I'm really pleased you've rejoined us, David!

Thank you.
 
> Why do you have mixed feelings about jkrowling.com?

For background, see the thread beginning at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/114977

I am not as bothered as some of those posters were: my personal 
defence mechanism is to consider JKR in those situations as being a 
reader, a very knowledgable reader, true, of her works rather than 
the omniscient author.  Not because she is not omniscient, but 
because she can't access all her own thoughts at a time, let alone 
all their implications.  However, she is clearly in a very powerful 
position to scupper reader interpretations, and on the whole, while 
I enjoy her little revelations as much as anyone, in the long term I 
think she would do better to let her books do the talking.  Ask 
Heidi about H/D.

> Under "Other things we might want to know about you" can you think 
> of anything else we might *really* want to know?

Ah, a very Dumbledorean question.  I feel Sirius has the best 
riposte: "Come on, Catherine, you can do better than that!"

> Why do you see your Potter obsession in "gradual decline"?  Is it 
> anything to do with OoP?

Not really, no.  While I feel it does give less scope than the 
previous books for speculating on the detective element, which was 
probably the immediate cause of my involvement in the online fandom, 
I think it has more to do with the the time of my life that I came 
across HPFGU: I was, without knowing it, needing to carve out a 
mental space to inhabit away from my life at the time.  That I did, 
but we move on.  In fact, my being here, where you all snooze in 
your portrait frames after the hurly burly's done, is evidence of 
that.  The space has invaded back, you might say. ;-)

> I have a feeling I've heard the story surrounding the davewitley 
id 
> before, but I can't remember it - care to repeat it?

Oh, it was just that I wanted to join the group, and Yahoo insisted 
that I pick an identity.  The first thing that came to my mind was 
that I then lived in Witley, and in a fit of originality I 
tacked 'Dave' on the front.  I had some vague thought of trying to 
conceal my real name: very vague indeed, since my surname is in my 
email address, and about the first onlist reply to one of my posts 
was by Catlady, in which she correctly referred to me as David 
Frankis.  It was a mistake anyway, as ever since then people have 
persisted in calling me Dave though I always sign myself:

David