I'm sorry that my essay upset you, that wasn't my intention, I just wanted to put my own personal opinion out there and see what other people thought.
However, if the author's intent has more weight, if I didn't intend for it to be upsetting, then as the author, surely that means it isn't? That means that your feelings aren't valid, which I don't believe. This is what I mean by it being a dialogue - I share my thoughts with you, and while I don't take responsibility for how you take them, I do acknowledge that your feelings have merit. It's not about taking credit for things, it's about communication, and a sense of togetherness that we, as social creatures, both want and need.
You keep saying things like "That's not what the books are about,", but you can't know that for sure, not unless you've sat down with JKR and gone over what every single word said to you and she nodded along and said "yep, you got it exactly right, well done." It's your own interpretation (which you are certainly entitled to have) but you seem to be confusing it with fact.
I don't really know why people having opinions different to your own upsets you, but I'm not going to apologise for having them. They're mine to have, just as your opinions are yours to have, and I don't think that JKR or any other writer in the world would want to take those opinions away from us, even if they are different from their own.
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Date: 2014-11-27 12:08 pm (UTC)However, if the author's intent has more weight, if I didn't intend for it to be upsetting, then as the author, surely that means it isn't? That means that your feelings aren't valid, which I don't believe. This is what I mean by it being a dialogue - I share my thoughts with you, and while I don't take responsibility for how you take them, I do acknowledge that your feelings have merit. It's not about taking credit for things, it's about communication, and a sense of togetherness that we, as social creatures, both want and need.
You keep saying things like "That's not what the books are about,", but you can't know that for sure, not unless you've sat down with JKR and gone over what every single word said to you and she nodded along and said "yep, you got it exactly right, well done." It's your own interpretation (which you are certainly entitled to have) but you seem to be confusing it with fact.
I don't really know why people having opinions different to your own upsets you, but I'm not going to apologise for having them. They're mine to have, just as your opinions are yours to have, and I don't think that JKR or any other writer in the world would want to take those opinions away from us, even if they are different from their own.