[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The privacy of the famous - artistic integrity

[Saitaina]

The occasional interview, photo opp, what have you is all that most fans generally want, a glimpse of future books (movies, what have you) is all well and good in exchange for the price we pay.  Nothing else is really expected, after all, we did pay, our job is done.  The extreme lengths (such as cameras and microphones and what have you at weddings, births, etc.) is not okay in any form.  This goes beyond privacy to basic human rights.  

Artists also have a right to express themselves as they wish, weather playing a song different then a recording, writing a book that is what they wish to be written and not what the public wants or what have you.  The fans have no right to say in what way the artist should express themselves, otherwise their not fans, their agents (sorry, bitter moment). True fans believe in enjoying what the said artist give them, or not enjoying it by choice, but allowing it to be presented to them.

On a side note, it doesn't matter how much darker the books get in the future, the children will read them.  Seven year olds watch R rated movies and television.  While not always acceptable it is up to the parents, not the authors to choose what their children shall watch.  Not all wars between "good" and "evil" are happy, bright places and children know that, they expect deaths in the upcoming 'war' and changing from a 'darker' to 'lighter' plot for the series would destroy that which as been building up for the past four books.

Saitaina
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