One Two more question about yesterday's interview...

Why does she think Uncle Vernon is that much more despicable dislikable than Voldemort? Or Lucius? Or Bellatrix?


And does anyone remember that in OotP, when Dennis Creevey is a second year, he shows up in Hogsmeade for the first DA day anyway? And that the term FLINT comes from the fact that she had Marcus at school a year after he should've left? She has an established track record of messing up ages. It doesn't mean she is TEH EBIL or that she's a terrible writer or a bad person.

But she does it. She's done it in the past, and crowns to galleons she'll do it again. We poke, we snark and we *ignore it* because it doesn't mesh up with the rest of the universe.

I'm wondering, here, how many people were in the fandom back when we lived through the Wand Order Issue of 2000? It might look now like we are making a big deal of the fact that the maths make no sense, but belive me, this is NOTHING compared to what happened when we read GoF and James and Lily didn't come out of the wand in the expected order.

( If you want to read what I wrote in October, 2000, before the  )

When the book was "corrected" pennylin posted to HPfGU:

I too would have preferred if she'd just come up with a
creative explanation or plot device in a later book for why it worked
the way it did. After all, our group came up with several plausible
reasons why James might have come out first! This, in my mind, would be
preferable to having such a big "goof-up" in over 3.8 million US copies
alone. And, the fix just seems lame to me; the scene doesn't read right
at all.

Sounds vaguely similar to some of the chatter of the past few days, in earnestness if not in actual topic, doesn't it?

Pointing out errors in things she says doesn't mean that said error-pointer should leave the fandom (as I saw someone suggest yesterday) and it doesn't mean that we have no respect at all for JKR's writing or her universe or her creativity or anything. It's just a *thing* and perhaps it's only a little thing, but it's a day's diversion and amusement and isn't that what fandom is for?

To be honest, I'd rather be reading everyone's takes on the interview, even where there are debates about the meaning of certain of her answers, than read yet again that people have gone to battlestations.

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Note: UnFlocked on October 2, although all comments not be Heidi or Angua are screened. If your comment was screened, let me know if you want it unscreened

From LadyMaidMarian's LJ:
That's where most of this hatred started. When an H/Ger spoke it was GT speaking, but when an H/Her spoke it WASN'T FA speaking. Why is that?

Perhaps it's because FA is not an H/Hr site, despite what people have said about it through the years?

And perhaps the hatred began because of this, and the fact that, as I understand it, Imogen told some falsehoods to her fellow mods in a way that libeled Cassie and myself, among other people.

Does anyone know that Jeff also threatened SugarQuill that December? That other people completely unrelated to all of this were hacking into HPfGU and FA mod accounts that month as well?

The *hatred*, as Marian calls it, did *not* start from *any* members of FA's mod squad, and it certainly didn't come from any of the H/Hr shippers on FA's mod squad!

What is she going on about?

Look, I have made it very clear that I am sick to death of the feuding. I have asked people to tell me what bad stuff they've heard about me, and they have not, as yet, done so. I am perfectly happy to mend walls, to peacefully coexist, etc., but I cannot do it by speaking into a vaccuum. When nobody responds, no dialogue will take place. And I'm not the nonresponsive one.


PS - to make this clear, I've only posted it here because Marian is screening posts on her LJ and thus my reply (which is the first sentence shown here) is not visible there.

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Oh, poor Martha!