JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "oakandbadger" 
<oakandbadger at ...> wrote:
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> See:  
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Television/article/300045
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> In Canada, 10:00 pm Eastern
> 
> Sounds as if it will be really interesting!


Tonks:
I lifted this from the story at the above link:
"The early years of Joanne Rowling are fraught with ephemeral 
incidents and enduring memories that would shape the Harry Potter 
narrative. From her mother's losing battle with multiple sclerosis 
to Rowling's eventual estrangement from her father, the series' 
aesthetic, spiritual and intellectual genesis is rooted in her own 
uneasy formation."

Well now this does explain a lot, doesn't it? I am talking about the 
part where she is estranged from her father. No wonder she has only 
one father figure in the book that she didn't kill off, but tired 
to. I bet it was her editor who suggested that maybe she shouldn't 
kill Arthur because he was the only good father figure in the 
books.  It also explains, I think, why DD is gay in her mind. Since 
DD is the closest thing to God in the series, especially early on, 
it would make sense for her to project on the DD the same sorts of 
things that a woman who did not have a good relationship with her 
own father might project onto God.

Tonks_op
who thinks that JKR is a great writer, who secretly wants to be a 
serial killer. This way she has the best of all possible worlds. 
Kills them all off and gets paid for it too. And no jail time. ;-)