Seriously? I remember your post and I don't remember you mentioning JKR at all.
That's because I didn't. Unlike them, you have good reading comprehension.
How did an AU hypothetical about Tom Riddle turn into an assumption about JKR's nationality and political affiliation?
I don't get that either, unless one assumes that any reference to an American evangelical must necessarily refer to the Tea Party. (The book I quoted was published in 2003, several years before the TP existed. And I made it clear the minister was quite liberal in his views.) Even so, I don't know where they fit JKR in there, unless one assumes that any reference to her books must necessarily refer to her, also.
(To be honest, I'm surprised that you weren't accused of being a blind Tom Riddle/Voldemort fangirl for suggesting what would have happened if he had been a good person. )
I kind of was. A few of them kept squealing, "But Voldemort is a bad guy! It says that right in the books! How can she not get that?" Never mind that I'd made it clear that I did get that, and I was proposing an AU scenario. Again, poor reading comprehension.
By the way, are the members of dedfromsnake the same people who were members of HMS STFU?
Yes. That's the forum they started to keep their idiocy going after they closed STFU out of embarrassment at getting hoist with their own petard.
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Date: 2012-05-29 02:50 am (UTC)That's because I didn't. Unlike them, you have good reading comprehension.
How did an AU hypothetical about Tom Riddle turn into an assumption about JKR's nationality and political affiliation?
I don't get that either, unless one assumes that any reference to an American evangelical must necessarily refer to the Tea Party. (The book I quoted was published in 2003, several years before the TP existed. And I made it clear the minister was quite liberal in his views.) Even so, I don't know where they fit JKR in there, unless one assumes that any reference to her books must necessarily refer to her, also.
(To be honest, I'm surprised that you weren't accused of being a blind Tom Riddle/Voldemort fangirl for suggesting what would have happened if he had been a good person. )
I kind of was. A few of them kept squealing, "But Voldemort is a bad guy! It says that right in the books! How can she not get that?" Never mind that I'd made it clear that I did get that, and I was proposing an AU scenario. Again, poor reading comprehension.
By the way, are the members of dedfromsnake the same people who were members of HMS STFU?
Yes. That's the forum they started to keep their idiocy going after they closed STFU out of embarrassment at getting hoist with their own petard.