Diversity in Literature & Media (WAS book differences)

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 40652

Dicentra wrote:

 
> Er, Cindy?  At the time Book 1 was published, JKR was not a 
>powerful person.  She was the timid author having her first book 
>published, and therefore was willing to be very accommodating to 
>her publishers, whom she perceived to be more powerful than she. If 
>this were not so, we wouldn't have a "Sorcerer's Stone."  

 
Let's read what I wrote one more quick time:

> > But if we want to speculate, the most compelling clue we have is 
> > that JKR has the *power* and *influence* to object to this 
> >change and she hasn't.  That ought to be the beginning and end of 
> >the question of whether the change reflects her vision of 
> >Hogwarts.  It obviously does.
 

Notice the deliberate usage of the present tense there.  JKR *has* 
the power and influence to object to this change and she *hasn't* 
and the change therefore *reflects* her vision.  That was no 
accident.  I'm not saying JKR had the power to resist this change 
when the book was first published.  I don't know that, and no one 
else knows that, either.   Heidi's citations to JKR's interview, 
however, do seem to take us a very long way to concluding that JKR 
may well have had some control over the change of Dean Thomas' race, 
as her approval of the changes was solicited to some extent.  

No, the big whomping clue that she doesn't mind the change is that 
she is powerful enough to get this changed *right now* and has not.

Although. . . 

That could well be the delay in OoP.  JKR is sitting in her big 
mansion pouting and stomping her foot, telling her publicist that 
they can't have the completed manuscript for OoP unless they change 
Dean Thomas' race in the U.S. edition of PS/SS *right now!*  ;-)

Cindy (who finds this idea much more entertaining than the idea that 
JKR is just being slow and careful and deliberate with OoP)