Shippers, Happy Endings & Related Topics

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 7856


Someone wrote:
"Maybe I'm being naive, but let's not forget that she writed for 
children, Okay, maybe more adults read it than children, but as she 
often says, and as I heard her say in the interview with her I 
watched yersterday, seh exxentially still aims this for children 
reading, and so when she DOES kill, it won't be dramaticlly. So, no 
matter how many death eaters die - she will not go popping off "Good  
carachters one by one."

Penny wrote:
"I'd be very interested in hearing more about this particular 
interview Maya, since it contradicts virtually everything else I've 
ever heard her say on the subject.  She's always maintained that she 
has no target audience, never intended to write for children & 
intends to stick fast to her pledge to not tone down the books for 
the younger readers (i.e., she's got a story to tell & she's planning 
to tell it regardless of how many 8 yr old readers she has).
 
"I maintain that we cannot assume that a "childrens'" series will end 
happily ever after.  I think JKR is writing fantasy but not fairy 
tales."

I agree with this Penny.  I am by no means saying that we shall come 
to the end of book VII and find all the characters living "Happily 
Ever After". I do think however that Jo is aware that a lot of her 
readers are children, including her own daughter. (Notice I didn't 
say that most or all of her readers were children just a lot.)  She 
HAS to be aware of that so that even if she's not writing for 
children she's not going to be writing books that are comparable to R-
rated movies.  The books as someone else wrote won't become Horror 
Films.  If there are numerous deaths it doesn't mean that the story 
is going to be reduced to a violent bloody massacre.  

I think this is what Maya was trying to say.  Perhaps it wasn't 
though. 

I am still undecided as to whether I think Harry will die. All I can 
say is "We shall see".  Then again I have been wondering whether or 
not Voldemort might die in books V or VI and then...well I could 
ramble incessantly (if I'm not already) but I think I just let 
everyone else comment.

Scott