One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[sistermagpie]

> colebiancardi:
> 
> JKR can still come back & write more on the WW if she chooses so. 
> They ARE her characters.  And her opinion, whether I agree on it or
> not, still holds more weight than my own on the character itself.
> 
> They are hers - not ours.  We didn't create that world, she did.  
And
> yes, if she states DD is gay, then he is gay.
> 
> That article, imho, is just one pissed off reader who didn't want 
DD
> to be gay, as if that makes a difference.  I am glad you posted it,
> but it just goes to show that some people don't understand that 
just
> because JKR WROTE something and has "finished" the series, doesn't
> mean she still CANNOT dictate who or what the characters are.
> 
> I totally disagreed with JKR's interpretation of Snape, but that is
> just me.  I would NEVER tell JKR that she shouldn't write Snape or
> describe Snape in any way she sees fit - as JKR was the one who
> created him and she can destroy him as well.

Magpie:
Speaking as somebody who agreed with the article, one of the things 
I liked was that it *wasn't* just about him not wanting DD to be gay-
-he put that on the same level as knowing who Neville married. I 
don't mind DD being gay at all but I've been for years hating her 
extra-canonical announcements about things for this reason. 

Of course she *can* write Snape any way she sees fit, or talk about 
him any way she sees fit. But her talking about Snape can very well 
cut into my enjoyment of her work. She actually can't "dictate" who 
the characters are because that's going too far. There's a point 
where we're talking about controlling reader's minds and reactions 
and she's never going to get that. Her saying DD is gay outside of 
the books doesn't necessarily "make him gay" in the books or not. If 
JKR later in life had a religious conversion and decided that Harry 
was evil would we be expected to take that view because it's hers 
now? I wouldn't. I think the books stand on their own and the author 
stands on her own and they're not the same. If she wanted to have 
that much control over the characters she shouldn't have ever 
published the story. Of course JKR has the right to keep on talking, 
but I can understand the articles that are now responding, "Yes, you 
have the right to keep talking, and I have the right to be irritated 
by it."

-m