Hu. Fandom wanks wars already. Kind of fun, kind of annoying, really.
Will people ever stop whining? I'm not so much bothered by the emotional investment in a fictional universe and fictional characters (I've always hated the 'get a live' & 'it's only fiction' arguments), but by the utter inability and unwillingness to see something for what it is, to even try to understand an author's, or character's motivation, to try and look at something from a point of view other than one's own, or, god forbid, to question one's own perception. To make a difference between 'I don't like this', and 'OMG this sucks JKR is an evil bitch!'. This is an attitude I really hate when I encounter it in 'real life', so I can't help being a little irritated, even if it's 'only' fandom. So a certain character isn't what you expected (s)he'd be. Deal. Walk away. Write fanfiction about your version, whatever. But for god's sake, quit complaining that this isn't how the character, the relationship, the situation were 'supposed' to be, if only the author wasn't too stupid to see your vision.
IMO part of the problem with the HP fandom is adults over-analysing a (series of) book(s) never meant to be analysed on so many levels, in such detail. And really, since when is a novel supposed to be an ethical treatise, and in what world do these people live where everything is just and balanced, people are always nice, kind, unprejudiced and generally reasonable, no one ever acts stupid, everyone gets an even chance, evil is immediately punished, & so on, & so forth, to demand that this should happen in fiction? So the Potter-verse isn't perfect, but life itself has rarely known to be fair - if it were, a lot of religions would suddenly be going out of business.
Eh. End of rant. Going to bed now.
[ETA: I think I'm physically, or rather mentally, incapable of ranting. Fifteen minutes later, and I'm already faintly embarrassed for posting this at all, beat myself up for over-simplifying matters, for making summary judgements, for not looking at the issue from about ten different sides... ::emphatic headdesk::]
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