JP -v- JKR

[elady25]

No: HPFGUIDX 61200

  > cantoramy wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 


imamommy:

Wow, that seems pretty cynical to think that she would give in to 
such wordly constraints, especially since she's had the ending in 
mind since she first conceived the story.  I hope Rowling doesn't put 
anything *in*, or leave anything *out* simply out of good business 
sense.  I don't think she was saying, "Yeah, Harry's going to bite it 
in book 7," I think, IMHO, she was just saying not to take anything 
for granted and that she still has control over her work.  

I'm curious about the point she doesn't want us to guess.  I suppose 
we won't know for a while who's even come close.  That's bittersweet, 
that is, because I'd hate to ruin it for her, but this group and 
others will, of course, continue to theorize until we all have book 7 
in our hot little hands.

imamommy
(who dearly hopes that JKR will someday publish "Hogwarts: a History")