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.

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