JKR's descriptions... Can you understand them? (Was SHIP: Harry, Ginny,etc)

[Cat]

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Marcela <templar1112002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What the heck do I have to imagine with that description: 
> "hard, blazing look"? (as a matter of fact, I kind of 
> thought Ginny was a Basilisk at one moment! :D)  In that
> precise scene, when Harry and Ginny are finally getting
> together, why did JKR have to use "hard" to describe Ginny
> is beyond my understanding. <snip>
> 
> Another one I can't for the life of me figure out -and I'm
> really looking forward to that part in GoF movie- is
> Voldemort's "high pitched cold voice"...  


Cat wrote:
I think this is a case of JKR overwriting to get her
point across. She does tend to do that at times--
constantly using adverbs after taglines when it's not
necessary. I think I read somewhere where Stephen King
said that if she deleted her adverbs the books would
be much shorter.

Cat