I think it's because the fannish entitlement in the HP fandom is far far far beyond anything. To my knowledge, the only people bitching whenever Jo updates her website or releases new information are those who got their own personal pet theories shot to hell by HBP and DH.
I've never been involved in any other fandom, so I can't speak to how they are, but I do think that the HP fandom was the first of its kind. It was so completely massive that you could always find someone who shared your view of the series, whether it was H/Hr, Snape-centric, or whatever, you could surround yourself with like minded people. These groups of like minded people would reinforce their ideas in themselves over and over and over until they were all convinced that they were right. So, when the new canon proved them wrong, they all were deeply insulted over their own wrongness. I wonder if the fandom had been smaller, if there wouldn't have been so many little groups convinced of their own ideas. I also wonder if some of these people had simply read the books and never got into the online fandom if they would still behave this way. Somehow, I doubt it.
I think that the various whiners have decided to ignore/explain away/whatever the canon they hate (which seems to be most of it), but for some odd reason whenever Jo decides to put out new info, they can't ignore that. I don't know why. If there was something that I knew was probably going to piss me off, I'd just not expose myself to it. But that's just me.
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I've never been involved in any other fandom, so I can't speak to how they are, but I do think that the HP fandom was the first of its kind. It was so completely massive that you could always find someone who shared your view of the series, whether it was H/Hr, Snape-centric, or whatever, you could surround yourself with like minded people. These groups of like minded people would reinforce their ideas in themselves over and over and over until they were all convinced that they were right. So, when the new canon proved them wrong, they all were deeply insulted over their own wrongness. I wonder if the fandom had been smaller, if there wouldn't have been so many little groups convinced of their own ideas. I also wonder if some of these people had simply read the books and never got into the online fandom if they would still behave this way. Somehow, I doubt it.
I think that the various whiners have decided to ignore/explain away/whatever the canon they hate (which seems to be most of it), but for some odd reason whenever Jo decides to put out new info, they can't ignore that. I don't know why. If there was something that I knew was probably going to piss me off, I'd just not expose myself to it. But that's just me.