this is only funny to myself.

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So I was arguing in the Harry/Ginny versus Harry/Luna debate thread at fictionalley.org, and complaining about Ginny's lack of character development as one of the reasons I don't ship her with Harry. I said basically that she has no defining personality, not like the other characters in the books do.

Anyway, someone said this in response:

"I guess you don't have a strong opinion of JKR's abilities, Rashaka. She's been developed in great detail."

I started laughing out loud at my computer, despite my recent sicknesss/couging today. I couldn't help it. I wanted really badly to retort "No, point of fact I don't, but you don't want to get me started on that, and I don't think it's part of the Ginny developement issue anyway."

I'm not going to say it though. Because they'd jump on me if I said "You know, I enjoy the books too, but face reality folks she still only a mediocre beginner writer."

Definitely, definitely not going to say that.

It occurs to me that for HP fandom I'm the equivalent of the people who watched every season 7 Buffy episode even though they hated it, and spent all their time bitching about the glory days and fighting over ships/characters "gone astray" and how quality was lost... except without the glory days part.

Am I the only person in HP fandom who likes the characters and storyline and mildly enjoys the books, but who doesn't praise JKRowling to the point of Josshood? Because I really, really don't. In fact, the idea makes me giggle with disbelief.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm with ya, sweetie. Although, I don't know if I really count as part of the fandom.

::hugs you:: I am somewhat active in fandom, though really only from a shipper perspective. I don't do much else.

I did start a mini-kerfuffle by being offended that Stephen King praised HP over His Dark Materials.

I've never read His Dark Materials, though I did read the SK review of HP book 5. I agreed with him that for the most part, what JKR lacks in writing quality she makes up in creativity. And she's slowly getting better.

That's exactly how I feel about it, which somehow makes me a literary snob who disdains HP just because it's popular.

I have a feeling that she's going to keep writing after the HP books are done, be it with that same verse or a new world altogether. She's still young enough to write many more books in her lifetime, and proloclivity is not something she seems to lack. So I think that her books 15 years from now are probably going to be better, and I look forward to that.

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

I agreed with him that for the most part, what JKR lacks in writing quality she makes up in creativity. And she's slowly getting better.

*Nods* And Philip Pullman is in his fifties or sixties, and has published many other books, some of which are fantabulous, but most of which are less great than HDM. Just how it works.

But everyone's rabid about something, I guess. ::shrug::