JKR characterizations--oversimplification?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 114999


Lisa wrote:
> Then again, I find her reduction of Sirius' good points/virtue to
> his loyalty and affection for James frustratingly simplistic as
> well. Why bother to tell us so much about his family and
> childhood, about how he left home because of his beliefs and his 
> opinion of his family's beliefs, if none of that means anything 
> with regard to Sirius' character????

Jen wrote:
> I'm convinced now that the intricacies of each character and their 
> story arc is ever-changing, even as the overall story is the same.


SSSusan:
AND that maybe JKR just shouldn't mess w/ answering Q's on her 
website unless she can really devote significant time to the 
responses, perhaps?  I don't mean that to sound either disrespectful 
to JKR *or* flippant to Jen, either!  I mean that some of us fans 
have invested a lot into contemplating these characters, but she 
addressed Sirius' character so briefly that she may well have done a 
disservice by oversimplifying.  

So maybe you should just HANG ON to what you believed about Sirius, 
Jen, because I don't think it's *that* far off what she said, really, 
given the brevity of the response.  I mean, *I* still think of him as 
loyal, even if her response only talked about loyalty to James & 
Harry.  

Perhaps she grabbed a few quick examples of flaws & strengths, and in 
doing so, left out a lot of things we all have thought about and 
would've liked to have seen addressed in more detail.  Maybe what you 
said about Sirius' feelings about Kreacher fall into that category; 
she said so little that it implied it was ALL about Kreacher's 
station, when her more lengthy writings in canon seemed to show it 
was about his history with that one particular house elf and the 
family's connection to the Dark Arts.

Am I making any sense??

Siriusly Snapey Susan