S'why I wish she'd stop commenting on her fans. The characters are hers. She can do whatever she wants with them. I might not agree with her, especially when she says something that seems to conflict with the text (have to take the text's word over authorial interviews, imho) but she's the authority, not me. But it's irritating for her to say 'Ah, my fans think such and such, because they are X or Y, this is why they're wrong.' I try not to analyse her, as a person. I can, and do say 'Issues much?' or 'Wow, the morals of this book are fucked up!' but I'm not going to say 'Ah, clearly her admiration of Sirius is because she is an unfeminist idiot who wants a bloke who drinks and tries to murder people!' I don't care who she likes in real life or in her books. I just don't want her saying to me that I'm wrong because I don't fall into line with the moral views of an author of children's books.
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The characters are hers. She can do whatever she wants with them. I might not agree with her, especially when she says something that seems to conflict with the text (have to take the text's word over authorial interviews, imho) but she's the authority, not me.
But it's irritating for her to say 'Ah, my fans think such and such, because they are X or Y, this is why they're wrong.'
I try not to analyse her, as a person.
I can, and do say 'Issues much?' or 'Wow, the morals of this book are fucked up!' but I'm not going to say 'Ah, clearly her admiration of Sirius is because she is an unfeminist idiot who wants a bloke who drinks and tries to murder people!'
I don't care who she likes in real life or in her books. I just don't want her saying to me that I'm wrong because I don't fall into line with the moral views of an author of children's books.