Manifesto?

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, ewe2 <ewetoo at g...> wrote:

> Anything Lupinlore has written in the last two months should be 
> enough - I'm not sure how it started. It's simple enough to explain 
> here: DD is ESE! because he deliberately left Harry with the dreaded 
> Dursleys and *hasn't apologized*. Lupinlore demands a remedy and 
> will destroy his books otherwise.

It's been going for a surprisingly long time, if you can put two and 
two together.

It's frustrating because he does have a point about some hanging 
threads and unresolved issues, but he takes it to the point of 
absurdity and does it over and over again ad nauseam.  It's especially 
frustrating because when he's not harping on that one issue and 
flogging the horse, he's capable of coming up with some insights that 
strike me as rather likely to pan out.

The argument I would actually like to see (just as a spectator, just 
for fun) is between the proponents of the "JKR is writing a world with 
a first-grade morality and is totally black and white and simplistic" 
and the "JKR is writing a world of massive complexity and ambiguity 
and Dumbledore is manipulating everything".  That would be interesting.

-Nora heads off through the rain to keep cataloging saints

(For Catlady: I'm working on a 14th century Italian gradual 
sanctorale, a book of chants for the Mass Proper for the feasts of the 
saints.  We have no idea where in Italy the book comes from, but the 
way you figure out is by going through and cataloging all of the 
rubrics and matching them to their day (saints' feasts are fixed day, 
Christological feasts are mostly movable), and seeing who is locally 
important.  It's slow but interesting, and there's some stunning art 
in the illuminations.  And I actually get to handle the book myself.  
I'm not worthy...)