JKR's revelations

[va32h]

>  
> In a message dated 10/20/2007 7:57:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> valerie.flowe at ... writes:
> 
> 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

va32h:

Oh I think she's totally making it up as she goes along.  And I doubt
she'll have any trouble letting the HP world go until she needs cash,
in which case she'll whip up that encyclopedia (of stuff she made up
on the spot). 

Given the context of the Dumbledore question, I suppose that is
something she's given thought to previously.  But the other stuff just
sounds like she's saying whatever pops into her head.  Which is
actually fine with me - I just wish she'd be honest about it.  Why not
say "Oh I don't know I never really thought of that.  What do you
think?" and then when the reader gives his thoughts she could say
"Sure! Why not!" Because seriously, anything we could think up is just
as good (or better, since we actually waste our brain cells on things
like whether nor not Neville would want to Apparate to Hogsmeade and
walk up to the castle everyday.)

va32h