Sincerly hope nobody comes in to tell me she’s some kind of awful person

I wouldn't say she IS awful, because she's been dead awhile now. I would say there was a time when she WAS awful, when she said gay people were demonic and that the people who loved her books would burn in hell. She eventually got over that. She did write a LOT of pedophilia storylines, though, and not in a negative light.

Also, have you read her books now that you are older? I don't think they age well.