JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section

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No: HPFGUIDX 127272


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 
> Marcela wrote:
> 

><SNIP> 
> I'm really worried about her comment that there are people who 
will 
> be upset with the ending but that she really wrote the books for 
> herself and had to be true to herself.
> 

I don't think we ought to make too much of JKR's comment.  She was 
clearly talking about Book VI and didn't really say anything about 
the ending, only that some people won't like the book.  That is a 
given.  There are so many clashing factions in fandom that any major 
plot development at this point will set some fairly sizable group 
off:  

If it turns out to be H/G the H/Hr people will go up in flames and 
vice versa.  If Snape turns out to be a hero some people will be 
mad, if he turns out to be a rat others will be mad.  If any major 
character dies somebody will get mad.  If there is more pain and 
sorrow and angst for Harry like OOTP a lot of people will be 
disgusted, but if things get better for Harry a lot of other people 
will find it a cop out.  If Ron is the Quidditch Captain some people 
will find it silly, if Harry is then others will find it just as 
silly.  If Harry and/or Dumbledore doesn't step up to provide 
parental support for Harry a lot of people will be severely 
disapproving.  If one or both does then a lot of people will 
scream "maudlin!"  If Dumbledore turns out to be a manipulator some 
people will be revolted, if he turns out to love Harry like a 
grandson some people will yell "incompetent old fool!"  Good 
Slytherins are the answer to some dreams, and the making of some 
nightmares.  If the series turns out to be about Harry making his 
way to adulthood while losing any parental figure he meets along the 
route, some people will approve while others will find it 
manipulative and preachy.  If on the other hand Harry finds parental 
figures that don't die some people will weep that JKR has succumbed 
to popular desires while others will say that the series is 
acknowledging Harry's realistic psychological needs.

All we know now, thanks to the interview of a Scholastic editor with 
Al Roker, is that the book is "intense" and "has lots of heart."  
Which, I suspect, means that the reaction will be -- spectacular.


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