""The trouble is, Don, that you don't listen to what people are actually saying when you don't want to, once you've taken against them. It goes all black and white. It makes it so that there isn't enough ground for us to have any sort of conversation. Too bad.""

What did I miss about your immediate response below, with its obvious suggestion that I must be senile if I read "Harry Potter" (an unjustified assumption and as it happens, untrue. I've never read Harry Potter books).

""[Jeez, if I really must...] Good for you if a poorly-written kids' book entertains you. Perhaps you've gone round full-circle or something.""

It seems to me very clearly an ad hominem argument, suggesting that your opinion on any subject is not to be challenged without the challenger being subjected to your own particular brand of snide, dismissive ill manners.

I don't give a shit about whether Harry Potter is great literature or pure dross. I just don't think that you are the fount of all knowledge and your opinion is the last word as you seem to believe.

Don T.