One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[sistermagpie]

> colebiancardi:
> 
> huh?  JKR's imagined view of a character is what brought that
> character to life and to us.   I know that George Lucas, the creator
> of Star Wars, has made all of the comics & novels written about the
> Star Wars universe canonical, even though they are the movies or
> stories he has written himself.
> 
> I would think that any of JKR's works or viewpoints are canonical,
> even if some of her views contradict each other.  
> 
> Who gets to decide what is canonical?  I would think the author does.

Magpie:
Only in so far as she decides what to put in the books, imo. Otherwise 
she may want to say she gets to say what's canonical, but she doesn't. 
To take something random I know she said, "Harry and Ginny are 
soulmates and have an intense connection" or whatever she said may 
make clear what she would like me to think about the couple, but that 
doesn't make it canon. And there are other authors who see it that 
way. I remember reading an interview with some author who mentioned in 
passing that she intended the last scene of one book to show somebody 
committing suicide but she apparently didn't write it clearly enough 
that most people got it. She wasn't correcting them, iirc she was 
giving what they got a bit more weight than what she intended. They 
woudl be wrong to say she intended it to be read their way, but she 
wasn't claiming that the suicide was more correct because it was what 
she intended or had in her head.

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