Out On A Limb About Florence

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 105856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snazzzybird" <carmenharms at y...>
wrote:
> Now that JKR has let the air out of the Mark Evans trial balloon, I'm 
> going to go out on a limb with a fearless prediction:
> 
> Florence will prove to be another Mark.
> 
I think you're probably right.  There are two conflicting aspects in
the HP world, and they're continually pulling against each other.  One
is the fact that this is all invented by someone, and we expect that
if the author has invented something, it's for a reason.  The other is
that Rowling is trying to create a believable "world", and as we know
from our own world, there are lots and lots of things in it that are
not connected at all.  Sometimes, her purpose for creating something
may be only to add another "thing" into her world - another detail, to
create a more realistic feel.  When we start trying to attach
important meaning to everything in the HP books, we can start to sound
like conspiracy theorists, who see a Grand Design behind everything,
no matter how unrelated.  It would be like putting myself in a story,
and mentioning that my house is located exactly between a beach and a
gas station; someone could come up with a great theory of why this is
or will be significant, when in fact, my house just IS between a beach
and a gas station.  There's no significance to it at all, that's just
where it was built.  So it could well be that lots of the characters
Rowling has mentioned will have no important role to play in the story
- they're just there to create a more detailed backdrop for the real
action.


Wanda