I've got a Sirius problem./VF article quote

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 25765

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> 
> after a period of happy lurking (due to writing my very own fanfic 
> that is threatening to become longer than GoF), I feel that I just 
> have to make myself very unpopular with 90% of you, professing that 
I really got a problem with the character of Sirius Black- I'd even 
go> as far as saying that I rather dislike him. Now, practically 
> everybody out there is pro-Sirius and so I thought I might 
eventually bore you with my Why-Do-I-Dislike-Sirius- analysis:
<snip!> 

And now, guys, feel free to put me through the shredder! I'm curious 
> to hear your comments.


Hi, Susanna and everyone else too--

I'm not going to put you through the shredder.  :)  I just want to 
say that this week's Vanity Fair article reminded me that we don't 
know everything about Sirius.  A quote follows:

"In fact, Rowling knows far more about each of her characters than 
she ever lets on, even to the actors playing them. "I almost always 
have complete histories for my characters," she says in Conversations 
with J.K. Rowling. "If I put all that detail in, each book would be 
the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but I do have to be careful 
that I don't just assume that the reader knows as much as I do. 
Sirius Black is a good example. I have a whole childhood worked out 
for him. The readers don't need to know that, but I do. I need to 
know much more than them because I'm the one moving characters across 
the page." 

This was the paragraph that got to me the most.  To have access to 
all that information, as a fanfic writer!  All I'd need is one hour 
with her notes... just one hour!

--Ebony AKA AngieJ (who also has her ideas about Sirius' childhood, 
but who is most likely all wrong)