JKR Listening ? (was Individual issues and JKR )

[xuxunette]

No: HPFGUIDX 153642

> 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. 

xuxu: 
If JKR was truly conforming her writing to the fans wishes Draco would
have ended up with Hermione long ago, and Snape in HBP would have
taught his DADA classes wearing only a green thong.

It's true JKR seems to be attentive to her fans, but I think the
influence the HP fandom may have on her writing doesn't work in such a
direct way. I believe that when she concerns herself with fandom
chatters her goal is not to find out how she should write her books to
meet the approval of her public but to observe her fans' reactions in
the interest of gauging the effectiveness of her work. And I think
it's only then, while her principal purpose is to sample the impact of
her writing, that amongst the very creative HP community she may come
across criticism she deems justified and sources of inspirations for
things which will make it eventually into the books.

IMO it would be really giving very few credit to JKR the author to
think that what she product is the mere result of fans pressure. 

JKR is not a fabulously talented writer (the kind that can take my
breath away with the beauty of a single sentence), but I think she is
certainly a genuine one and also a very intelligent one. That's why I
believe she understands that the best she could possibly do is not to
write the book her fans want, but the one she have in her guts, the
only book which may surprise us. 

It's understandable that we fans should wish to have influence over
her writing, and as I said to a certain degree I think we do; but then
do we really want to read a book which is already written behind our
eyelids? 

I think of authors as lovers, the good ones know what I like and never
fail to please me, but the extraodinary ones are those who know to try
and take me to places I have never imagined before. I hope and believe
JKR is going to prove herself as one of the later.