One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Annemehr]

 > Magpie wrote:
 > <snip>
 > > 
 > > The article's author isn't saying JKR should not think of Harry 
 as 
 > having more to him than what's on the page, he's saying that 
 > everybody will fill him in for themselves off the page and when she
 > just throws out "this is the way to imagine this" when she's 
 talking 
 > about something off-page it's cutting into the reader's 
experience. 
 > <snip> Some people, I  guess, find it makes it "more real" when she
 > throws out random facts  that are outside of canon. Others of us 
 don't
 > like it at all.
 > 
 > Carol responds:
 > 
 > Exactly. The writer's point is that JKR is making it harder to read
 > the books now because her post-publication statements interfere 
with
 > our ability to interpret the works for ourselves and prevent our
 > imaginations from filling in whatever information was left out of 
 the
 > books (including the details that she trimmed from the epilogue).
 
 
 
 I guess it depends on how stubborn one is.  I did enjoy the article 
 you linked to, but although I find JKR's current pronouncements 
 boring (and also wish for more literary talk from her), I'm not 
 having a real problem with her interfering with my imagination.
 
 For me, Neville/Luna sails on.  Neither Ron nor Harry are Aurors.  
 Furthermore, Snape, having upstaged everyone in the role JKR wrote 
 for him, has long since got up, taken his bows at the curtain call, 
 and retired to a very remote and ancient stone house to...
 
 Well, I'll leave that to your imagination. ;)
 
 Annemehr