Rowling as Conan Doyle {WAS: Re: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore - father figure or manipulator?}

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 35679

Greetings from Andrew!

A short comment from another fandom....
--- alhewison <Ali at zymurgy.org> wrote:
{snip}
> Ali
> 
> (Still dreading the fate of Harry in Book 7  why is
> JKR so set that 
> there won't be another HP story?)

Do you recall how hard Conan Doyle tried to kill off
Holmes, after CD became very unhappy about the Holmes
canon being his only popular work?  I suspect that
Rowling is trying to avoid the same fate, but I also
think it is far too late for her to get 'out from
under' HP and establish another character.  Perhaps
not; time will, after all, provide us with actual
evidence.

I do suspect that Rowling has observed the effect that
Holmes had on Conan Doyle; after all, other than
Challenger and the 'White Company', how much of CD's
other writing springs to mind when his name is
mentioned?

Cheers,

Drieux

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