JKR Listening ? (was Individual issues and JKR )

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 153615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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. 

Pippin:
JKR enjoys a shout out to the fans, but she's hardly changing her vision
to accommodate them. 

If she did, then Sirius would be alive, Harry would have dated 
Hermione, Mark Evans would be someone important and there'd be
an American exchange student at Hogwarts. We must be grateful. :)

At best JKR seems to have hoped that her books would become a cult
favorite.  I don't suppose she'd be terribly disappointed if they
dropped off the bestseller list  because people violently disagreed
with her vision. She's hinted that they might. Any author who's got more
than a few million pounds and a prudent financial advisor doesn't
need popularity except for its own sake, and JKR does not show great
signs of Lockhartness. 

She's said all along that she's writing the books for herself.

Pippin