Who's in charge, DD or JKR?

carin_in_oh aldhelm at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 29 21:59:49 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 103464

> Potioncat:
> Very good post!  We all seem to forget from time to time that 
> someone really is directing all this. 

Carin: <blushes> 

Thank you! Yes, that's it. Further thoughts: We can and should read the HP books 
both as mysteries and as novels. In the former case, we take facts within the 
Potterverse as facts and attempt to draw logical conclusions from them about future 
and past facts within the 'verse. In the latter case, we interest ourselves in things like 
the allusive and symbolic structures of the books and the series: similarities, 
oppositions, balance, patterns of internal reference. Matters of authorial habit and 
intention are relevant to both kinds of interpretation. The fact that we have a living 
author who feeds us tidbits between books about her plans (including discarded 
plans) as well as facts about plot and character, and that we call all of this 
undifferentiatedly "Canon", means that we need to remind ourselves occasionally 
about what kind of interpretation we're engaged in at any given moment.

Carin





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