Just where is JKR getting her info from?/Book 6 progress

[cubfanbudwoman]

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DuffyPoo:
> > My dear Husband has told me for some time not to get too 
> > attached to these books as the last two may never make it to the 
> > store shelves.  She's got all the money she and her children, 
> > probably her children's children could ever want there is no 
> > real pressing need to 'go to press' on the rest.  I also have 
> > L.M. Montgomery's (Anne of Green Gables author) words in my head 
> > about how very much she hated writing the last few books because 
> > she wanted to get on to something else but fans kept pressing 
> > her for 'more Anne."

mhbbobbin:
> Alas, there are needs other than financial. The series has brought 
> financial success to her, beyond anything she (or anyone) could 
> have imagined. I think her literary legacy matters greatly to her. 
> Will the books stand the test of time or be seen as a fad? And she 
> cares greatly for her fan base, not to mention that it might be 
> time to be done with it. That kind of pressure can be paralyzing, 
> so I hope it is a spur to her to keep writing.  

> But I worry that  she can not please everyone. She has got to 
> start tying up loose ends, eliminating beloved characters, 
> revealing true motivation.  Part of the joy of the series comes 
> from her ambiguous writing style and deliberate misleading of the 
> reader. We enjoy trying to decipher her clues, trying not to be 
> blindsided, spinning theory after theory about the remaining 
> story. THe slow release of the novels have made this series inter-
> active. Did Dickens have to cope with that?


SSSusan:
Did you see the A&E hour-long show on JKR from last year?  If you 
see/hear her talk about who she's writing these books for, I don't 
think you'd worry quite so much.  Yes, she cares about her fans, but 
this is *Harry's* story -- stated another way, *her* story -- and 
she has made it pretty clear that no one is going to influence her 
to alter what she's already determined is coming.  Here were her 
words in that A&E show, which came as she talked about a woman who'd 
written her, telling her she needed to change her books so they 
weren't so disturbing.  She said she wrote the woman and told her 
not to read the rest of the books.  

"I'm not taking dictation here.  Do I care about my readers?  
Absolutely, profoundly.  But do I think they should dictate a single 
word of what I write?  No.  I am the only one who should be in 
control of that." 

This is a story that I believe JKR feels "needs telling."  THAT'S 
what she's working on, and while--who knows?--she might think about 
what all these millions of people are going to think about X or 
write about Y, I just believe she really means it when she says 
she's writing this story for herself.  So much of the essentials 
were already plotted out when she got SS/PS published, and she had 
no inkling of the following she would acrue.  

I have no doubt that mhbbobbin is correct that there will be some 
who won't be pleased with the outcome.  But I really don't think she 
cares *that* much.  From the things that she's said [including how 
she feels about Book 6--how much she's enjoying it], I don't think 
she's seeing this as drudgery at this point.  I really think she 
wants to tell this story.

JMHO
Siriusly Snapey Susan