You can be offended if you like. I'm not stopping you.
by Cassandra
>They're kinda HER characters
I'm sorry, but the word "duh" neatly undermines any of the more loquacious synonymical phrases that I could ever use here.
>- and she's such a good writer that I'll readily accept any backstory that she gives about them as the final say.
All right, anyone on this board who'd do different, say "Aye". No, don't worry, the tar's not boiling yet, and all the pillows we could find had polyester stuffing.
Let's get this straight here. I know she's a good writer, and publicly, yes, I will accept any possible backstory that she could feed us as the Harry Potter equivalent of the Gospel truth. Even if she ends up telling us that Sirius used to have a summer job as a sideshow attraction, Remus was a male exotic dancer in his younger years, and Snape just had an incurable attachment to a particular pair of leather pants, I wouldn't storm the newspapers with crude "i THinK jk roWLInG SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!" letters, or do anything of the like. I would sulk and storm for days around here, but only you lot would be subjected to it (And I bet a few of you would be doing some ranting of your own), and the Queen of Children's Literature would remained untouched. Fear not.
>Being an obsessive fan doesn't give you more right to determine what to do with her characters than the creator herself.
[Insert the "duh" line again here]
>I know you're just being facetious,
Thank you for realising that.
> but I still found it kinda offensive towards Joanne. :-/
Well, the moral of the story is that plenty of us are quite capable of being ungrateful and offensive in private while publicly crawling on our bellies to lick our heroine's feet. It's actually a basic human trait.
Oh, and tantrum-throwing is good for the stress level.
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Gospel truth ... I don't understand that. I mean, there are so many Gospels ...