The Magical World

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 90284

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chris" 
<claphamsubwarden at y...> 
> wrote:
> >Perhaps JKR is doing an 
> > Asimov and keeping large areas of her world uncovered, for 
herself 
> or 
> > other writers to touch upon at a later date, perhaps?

> Meri here: I think you make a good point. JKR's world is as new to 
> Harry as it is to us. He asks all the questions that we want to (or 
> most of them anyhow)
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>As to having other writers take on parts of the HP world, I 
> really can't see that happening. JKR letting her literary baby whom 
> she nursed through young adulthood be touched by other writers, as 
> well intentioned as they may be? I don't see it. 
> Meri 
AmanitaMuscaria writing now : What's fanfic about, then? Surely the 
whole HP universe has spiralled away from J.K.R.?
Whether that's right or wrong, it 's a fact.
I myself can't imagine how she's feeling, with her personal world 
taken by hundreds? thousands? of writers and moved in directions she 
couldn't have thought of.
How weird is that?
Or even the scenario that people have written up bits of her 
imagination into fanfic before she's published them?

Sorry. I write fanfic, but I'm also in two minds about it.

It's such a peculiar place to be, where a series isn't finished by 
its original author, but there's so MUCH work around the characters.

I'd hate to be Rowling now. 

I don't think this has happened before, where someone's work has been 
taken up so widely, while it's in progress. I've followed Sherlock 
Holmes fanfic, pre-internet and post- ; this is so much more avid, 
fierce.

What do you all think?
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria