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+On bashing
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+:date: 2020-04-24
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
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+Bashing and similar are not the cause of poor quality of their
+stories, but they are just a symptom of the author being lead by
+the poor design of his story into areas, which would be
+impossible to resolve or it would be too difficult, so bashing is
+then just a cheap cop-out from the bad situation. From bad to
+worse.
+
+E.g., I really liked (ultra-cheesy, teeth rotting, true) setup of
+`A Different Halloween by RobSt`_: Lily Potter meets Emma Granger
+at the paediatrician, and they go the Grangers’ for tea, so when
+Voldemort calls, James Potter is on the phone with Lilly, more
+alert, and he doesn’t have a problem of defending Lilly and
+Harry; thus he manages to escape. The problem of this story was
+that all problems were (in a rather elegant manner) resolved in
+the middle of the third chapter (when Voldemort truly completely
+and irrevocably died). The author had two good options what do in
+that situation: he could just finish the story right there, and
+it would be a nice short sugar-sweet three-shot story. Nothing
+against that. Or he could really sit down on his behind and
+develop the new completely original storyline. He went the third,
+poor, way: by the ridiculous amount of the Dumbledore bashing he
+tried to make a villain out of him and the result was ridiculous.
+
+And no, it is possible to write Dumbledore as a bad guy, I am not
+claiming he must be a saint, but it is a hard job and the author
+must really write a long persuasive story to get from the most
+positive to a negative character. `There Will Be No Foolish Wand
+Waving by kgfinkel`_ made an almost good job in this area.
+
+.. _`A Different Halloween by RobSt`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6439871
+
+.. _`There Will Be No Foolish Wand Waving by kgfinkel`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13137899