I do get what you're saying here, about not holding the mistakes of her youth forever against her. People do learn and grow. I think in this case, the issue is that it hit me really hard at the time, because I was a wee fan who was just getting into fandom, and I really looked up to her and admired her writing, and plagiarism was (and is) something that I have a really strong knee-jerk reaction to. Admiring her writing and praising it to other people, and then finding out that a lot of it wasn't her writing, was a blow; I've never been able to view her work in the same light that I did before.
... that said, I'm not running around organizing a pitchfork-and-torch brigade, and she seems like a nice person -- she seemed nice even at the time, from the limited contact I had with her when she was writing HP fic. She made mistakes; people do. I can't come to her work unbiased myself, but I certainly don't begrudge other people enjoying it, and I'm sorry if it came off that way in my earlier comment -- I was mostly just trying to explain why it's not for me, not dictate for anyone else that they shouldn't read it.
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Date: 2013-08-07 06:23 pm (UTC)... that said, I'm not running around organizing a pitchfork-and-torch brigade, and she seems like a nice person -- she seemed nice even at the time, from the limited contact I had with her when she was writing HP fic. She made mistakes; people do. I can't come to her work unbiased myself, but I certainly don't begrudge other people enjoying it, and I'm sorry if it came off that way in my earlier comment -- I was mostly just trying to explain why it's not for me, not dictate for anyone else that they shouldn't read it.