JP -v- JKR

cantoramy cantor at vgernet.net
Fri Jun 20 04:35:56 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 61198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, digger <altered.earth at n...> 
wrote:

> Well I'm convinced after that interview that Harry won't survive 
at the 
> end of Book 7. Maybe he can't kill Voldemort without dying himself?
> So that would be good annihilating evil; they cancel each other 
out.


Too bad that that particular ending has been done before.  
Does "Frankenstein" come to mind?

When Agatha Christie killed off Poirot, I remember reading that it 
was because she didn't want anyone else to write about him.  The 
situation is different for James Bond.  Fleming probably never knew 
what a gold mine that "franchise" would become.  

IMHO, I don't think that AOL-Time Warner would really let her kill 
Harry off.  He makes them too much money.  Who would want another 
Lego set or Hogwarts calendar after book 7 if Harry comes to some 
gruesome end?  It is my understanding that she has sold all 
publishing and movie rights for all 7 books.  Even though she is the 
author, she still needs to answer to editors, publishers and (dare I 
say it) stockholders.  She probably has superior legal 
representation and has forbidden anyone else to pick up the saga and 
run with it after she's finished, which is as it should be.  But I 
don't think she can be completely free to choose how the story will 
end.

cantoramy

(whose husband sells wallpaper and is wondering if there will be a 
Hogwarts or quidditch wallpaper at some point--we still have 4 rolls 
of Beatle wallpaper in the safe) 





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