Book 7 news

[juli17ptf]

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> patriciah711 at ... writes:
> 
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> > with 
> > interacting with her fans and giving them something to have fun 
> > speculating about. Because it should be fun to get to think and 
guess 
> > and argue. It's just a book series. It's not like she told us 
that two 
> > members of our family are going to die and it's excruciating to 
find 
> > out which. She means it to be fun.

> 
> Sandy:
> 
> You and I have a vastly different idea of what is and isn't fun. I 
don't 
> think it is fun, and I am not conviced that JKR does it for fun. I 
think it is an 
> ego trip for her and that she is metaphorically sticking her tongue 
out at us. 
> I know what's going to happen and you don't, nah--nah-nah-nah-nah. 
I think 
> it's hateful.
> 

Julie:
And I think she's giving the fans what they (most of them) want. 
Besides the thousands of online posts to various HP sites and forums 
speculating on what will happen and if/when JKR will please impart 
some information, JKR probably gets hundreds of letters a day asking 
her what is coming next--Is Snape good or bad? What does the prophecy 
really mean? Will someone die in book 7?, etc, etc--and her way of 
dealing with that is to reveal a tidbit of information here and 
tidbit there, without giving away any critical information on the 
plot. I don't think she is on an ego trip at all. Fans, especially in 
our Internet age, crave spoiler information. Mugglenet and Leaky 
Cauldron (to name two sites) don't have entire pages devoted to Book 
7 spoilers for no reason ;-)

While I'm sure the creative satisfaction is immense, and the money is 
great, being such a public figure means JKR simply *cannot* win. If 
it's not one fan demanding she drop a hint or two about what's 
coming, it's another calling her hateful for doing so. Ouch.

Julie