Website FAQ Poll

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 128045


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "JaanisE" <jaanise at h...> wrote:
 
> 
> Jaanis:
> 
> I don't think the poll questions are totally *unimportant*, I just 
said
> I think they're not *too* important. Not too important for the 
story in
> the last two books anyway.
> 
> I don't see it as a matter of challange or bravery, but there must 
be
> some responsibility towards the readers, those who don't want the
> mystery relieved sooner than necessary, and to those who maybe 
*think*
> they want it - for their own sake.  And I suppose, there are some
> responsibility towards the publishers, although I don't know what
> agreement they have there. At least, that's the way how the author 
has
> started it and has been acting till now and we're already expecting 
the
> mysteriousness.
> 
> The poll questions, I see, as an opportunity either to find out
> something more about HP world that is not and is not going to be in 
any
> book of HP series (like a more interactive part of her site's extra 
and
> faq sections), or maybe some bits about the two future books, but 
again
> - if that's the case, the question shouldn't include anything 
*big*. Or
> at least the answer as Rowling gives it.
> 
> So, I think that the question about Neville more or less indicates 
that
> he won't be that *very*important* Neville in many of fans' theories 
or
> fanfics.

Hickengruendler:

I would agree with you, if it weren't for how she answered the 
Petunia FAQ-Question. She basically didn't answer it at all, but 
instead gave some new hints to make us even more curious about it. 
She could easily do the same about the Neville question as well.