New JKR FAQ Poll: Which is significant?

boyd_smythe boyd.t.smythe at fritolay.com
Tue Jul 20 23:44:31 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 107093

> Jen wrote: Maybe your right, Valky! I figured since JKR was picking 
the questions they wouldn't hold important clues, but... <

boyd:

I think some of these questions are simply opportunities for us to 
tell Jo which characters' offscreen (so to speak) stories we'd like to 
see.

She's probably imagined much more that she only has space to hint at 
in the books, ala Tolkien. For example, perhaps she does have a great 
reason for the Dursleys to keep Harry around, but it's not central to 
the plot. So in order to keep the books somewhat reasonably sized, she 
has simply cut this bit of story out. Ditto the Percy and Wormtail 
bits.

And now she gives us this opportunity to tell her which bits of story 
we'd like to hear more of...in her FAQ. If that's the case, then this 
is actually a very nice gesture on her part, don't you think?

--boyd
who'd like to hear more about ex-Marauder Wormtail than Percy the git 
or the Dullsleys





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