JKR characterizations--oversimplification?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 115039


> 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.  

Jen: YES! The website is getting frustrating now (for me, anyway). I 
love those little tidbits and clues, but at the same time the 
inconsistencies and mistakes are wearing down my faith in JKR's self-
described "tight plot construction." I don't *want* to doubt that 
the story will pull together in the end, but here I am...

SSSusan: 
> 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.  

Jen: The only other choice seems to be abject disappointment, so 
I'll keep hangin' on. ;)

SSSusan:
> 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.

Jen: Now that's a possibility. Another thing I'd like to keep 
believing is JKR is *not* influenced by fan reaction and statements. 
Unfortunately, now I'm wondering if that's naive. She obviously 
knows many of the fansites and visits them periodically. Reading 
certain ideas may influence her to change her mind--she's only human 
after all.