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

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ri/]

It's actually that not-too-complex writing style of Rowling's that I'm personally very fond of, it's fresh and to the point, if I can put it that way. Then again I suppose I generally tend to value creativity bit more than style; even in art. It depends.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I like to-the-point writing, at times. Steinbeck is a great write who uses very straightforward language. But it's not simplicity that I would say she lacks... just maturity of style. I would put her in writing classes. Not because of a lack of creativity (she's got that, as well as determination to complete her works), but because I think she could learn to write better. She's not bad now, but she's only okay. She could be much better, and the plot and characters she's created could be that much greater if the delivery was as strong as the content.