JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[sistermagpie]

> 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.

Magpie:
What does anything to do with a bad relationship with a father have 
to do with DD (or anybody) being gay? A woman who had a bad 
relationship with her father would start imagining God as gay? How 
does that work?

-m (who thinks that although there are many things in canon about 
the Weasleys that would be more meaningful if she'd killed Arthur, 
can't help but worry about her trying to write Harry having to 
support someone else emotionally or deal with Ron suffering more 
than himself.)