JKR Listening ? (was Individual issues and JKR )

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No: HPFGUIDX 153612

Lupinlore:
> Listening?  Depends on what you mean be listening.  I doubt she's 
> writing by focus group, opinion poll, tarot card, or alchemical 
dream 
> interpretation.  But I also suspect she's being at least 
disingenuous 
> when she claims that she doesn't care if she only has six readers 
when 
> all is said and done.  I suspect she cares a very great deal. 

Alla:

Yes, with this I agree completely.

Lupinlore:
> In fact, many parts of HBP seem deliberately crafted to address the 
> fandom in various ways.  
<HUGE SNIP>

Alla:

To avoid of my post being a complete "me too", I snipped all your 
examples and want to add one more – the portrayal of Molly. I said 
several times that in general I am rather fond of Molly, but I 
certainly had issues with her about which I was not shy to speak up.

Isn't it FUNNY that all the issues I had with her (and from the 
discussions I remember that some other readers did to) were addressed?

1.	Molly  does NOT boss Arthur around in HBP at all IMO ( which 
fans criticized rather loudly).

2.	Molly  saying that twins are good with business ( 
paraphrase), and the fact that she seemed to forgot about then when 
praising Ron for being a prefect was also criticized and I certainly 
shared that criticism.

3.	What else? JKR of course cannot make Molly apologize to 
Sirius for her incredibly rude behavior in his house (IMO of course), 
but I think that if Sirius would have been alive, she would have done 
that too.


Lupinlore:
> What will she do -- nobody knows, maybe not even her (I also rather 
> doubt she has things nailed down nearly as securely as she likes to 
> let on, see some of the issues above). But is she listening?  Oh 
yeah, 
> I think she's listening very carefully.

Alla:

I think that she DOES planned major stories rather well ( I mean,  
Sirius was mentioned in book 1 for example – that was SO cool), but I 
don't buy that details and minor stories were planned out.

IMO,

Alla