[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Lee Kaiwen]

Carol:

> "And speaking for all of your happy readers I need to tell you: Now
> they are ours."

I would quibble with only this one point: the characters belonged as 
much to us as to her from the moment we began reading, because our 
imaginations began filling in the blanks from the first moment we made 
contact. The only Dumbledore I have ever known is the Dumbledore of my 
imagination, and that DD -- *my* DD -- has belonged as much to me as he 
does to JKR since my first encounter with him. JKR has as much right as 
anyone to talk about *her* DD, but to insist that the portion of DD that 
exists in *my* imagination (i.e., any portion that didn't come from the 
pages of the canon) is of less value than hers is arrogance, and begs 
the question: of less value to *whom"? Certainly not me, to whom *my* 
portion of DD is of considerable value precisely because it's mine.

--CJ