[HPFGU-Movie] JKR's revelations

[Karen]

On Oct 20, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Sue Wartell wrote:

>
> Valerie asked (among other things)...
> How does everyone feel about JKR revealing so much after the books  
> have been published? I'm wondering if she's not making some of it  
> up as the questions are posed to her? (Don't throw virtual tomatoes  
> at me!!) Or is she that deeply involved in her characters'  
> development that she truly HAS thought about their pasts, and  
> futures to that degree? And if so, is she going to be able to let  
> the HP world go, any more than we are!?!Valerie
>
> My thoughts:
>
> If she has thought it through, she hasn't done so very thoroughly.   
> Not only did she give Ron two careers, but she gave Neville two  
> lives.  He's a professor at Hogwarts (herbology), who lives over  
> the Leaky Cauldron in London with Hannah Abbott.  That's a heck of  
> a commute every day, unless he likes aparating (sp?) into Hogsmead  
> every day and hiking up to the school.  Of course we never did  
> learn where the other faculty lived, so that may be common.  But in  
> emergencies, most of them seemed to be at the castle, even in the  
> middle of the night, suggesting that they lived there.
>

I'm curious. Why is that a long commute? Arthur travels to London  
everyday. I've always felt that many people apparated to whereever  
they worked through the books. Only at Hogwarts did people live right  
there or if they live in Hogsmead that is different. I have to agree  
with the other poster. No reason Ron can't be part of the joke shop  
AND an auror. I, too, have two jobs. Many of the technicians that  
work with me at one job have businesses on the side (some are rural  
things like sheep, or cattle; another I know is very high up in the  
technical side, but he also has a little business where he locates  
"junk" for people - parts for tractors and such - because he LOVES  
looking for junk and looking for tractor stuff. He just turned it  
into a business, with hired help and everything.)

Karen


http://pearlthediabeticcat.blogspot.com/