JKR's opinon. was What JKR's up to

[Mandy]

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> Jim wrote: 
> <snip>  JKR is also gently reminding us whose universe this is.  

> SSS: 
>"I think this [debunking some theories] will tick some people
> off. I've already heard concern (and maybe a stronger word should  
be used) being expressed that JKR is TELLING people how to react or 
feel about characters and situations."

> Jim wrote: 
> Are you referring to the "Voldie" thing? 

> SSS again now:
> Actually, Jim, I mean more than the Voldie thing.  That, too, of 
> course, but the comment she made about the moderators at MuggleNet 
> thinking Slytherin was their spiritual home, deciding "for us" 
>which pieces of fanfic art are the most accurate representations of 
>Remus & Sirius, earlier comments in the World Book Day chat that 
>some people are entirely too fond of Draco, even just that she's 
>spending time telling us some things that won't happen.  These are 
>some of the concerns I'm hearing. I don't really have problems with 
>any of this; other people do.  That's all I was saying.  
<unfortunatly large snip>


Mandy here:
I agree with SSS. Potter is JKR's universe that she is putting out 
into the world and inviting us to take a share in. She has the right 
to guide us in any direction that she chooses, and if people don't 
want to hear or accept the guidelines that make up her stories 
universe, they can always stop reading HP. 

JKR is just posting her own opinions, about her own story, on her own 
web site, and I don't see any difference between that, and any one of 
us coming up with a theory and backing it up with canon.  We all want 
to share our ideas, theories and choices, that's why we're here, and 
I'm certain we all secretly desire to have our theories proved right 
in the end, even if we don't mind being proved wrong. She is the 
ultimate authority on the subject, she is the only one who can say no 
afraid not, this is what really happened.  

JKR has take the time and money to create her own web page to expand 
our perception surrounding the it, and if she wants to scold us, 
humorously, for using a name she doesn't like, or associating too 
closely with Slytherin and it's alumni, she can go right ahead.  It's 
up to us what we do with that information.  I get so tired of living 
in a world where people get offended by others taking a stand or 
having an opinion.  If JKR is not allowed to voice an opinion on her 
own creation and how others view it, what right do any of us have to 
have an opinion? 

JKR knows we are all going to ultimately make up our own minds as to 
how we see the Potterverse and all who inhabit it. It our choices 
that make us who we are, right? ;-)

Cheers Mandy, who agrees that the reckless use of the name 'Voldie' 
should stop, BUT is also proud to be a card carrying Slytherin. And I 
love being entirly too fond of the Malfoy boys. ;-)