One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Carol]

Susan:
> 
> Did we hear ANYthing like this when Christopher Tolkien published a 
> book based on his father's notes? Did we hear problems with J.R.R. 
> Tolkien publishing the history and back story of Middle Earth in the 
> Silmarillion? Nada... <snip>

Carol responds:
Maybe we didn't hear any complaints when Christopher tolkien published
his books (though some people did object to his blending of materials
from different drafts of "the Silmarillion" to create a coherent
whole) because he was trying to meticulously recreate his father's
writing process--notes, drafts, and revisions--without imposing any
sort of interpretation on the reader. I would have no objection at all
to a similar work by JKR as long as she realized that it reflected the
writing process and that a rejected draft or her imagined view of a
character is not canonical.

JRRT never tried to control the interpretation of his works. In fact,
as I've stated elsewhere, he went so far as to state that his books
had no message, that they were neither allegorical nor topical, and
that "applicability" to, say, WWII (or WWI, which Tolkien actually
experienced, and which surely shaped his views on war and male
friendship) lay in the freedom of the reader. that concept, "the
freedom of the reader," appears to be foreign to JKR, who fails to
understand that her books and characters now exist in a great many
imaginations other than her own, and not one reader, however
sympathetic to her politics and willing to accept her intentions as
actualized (forgive the word) in the books themselves, sees the
characters and incidents exactly as she does, simply because no two
people have exactly the same experiences (not even identical twins, as
Fred and George aptly demonstrate) and consequently, no two people
interpret a literary work in exactly the same way.

Carol, wishing that JKR would learn to respect her readers but afraid
that she (JKR) is too attached to the idea of herself as their creator
ever to let them go