JKR Listening ? (was Individual issues and JKR )~1Ne

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No: HPFGUIDX 153646

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, BrwNeil at ... wrote:
>

>  
> If on the other hand, they do not become a couple or that subplot 
is  totally 
> dropped than I will feel she has given into pressure either from 
the H/H  
> shippers or the movie giants who don't like that pairing.  I'm not 
saying  that 
> we will see H/H, but rather that the subject might be totally 
dropped and  left 
> for fanfiction to argue about for decades to come.  
>  
> Neil


I think Alla has the right formula here.  How important is the R/H 
pair to what JKR is trying to sell?  Is it in any way interfering 
with her closing of the sale?

My suspicion is that it isn't all that important but it isn't 
interfering very much, either.  The explosion has already occurred 
with the coming of H/G, and nothing she does with R/H will either 
help or hurt the situation.  So, I think we will see R/H.  There 
would be no purpose served in avoiding it. (By the way, I do think 
JKR was in bind with the shipping in HBP, in that any way she went 
would have evoked much the same level of response).

With regard to Sirius, I suspect JKR miscalculated the fan reaction, 
there.  That is, I think she was honestly taken aback by the 
response.  Not saying she expected to make people happy, but I don't 
think she counted on being "repeatedly" faced with the issue, as she 
mentions (wearily and rather crossly) in her interview with cub 
reporters.  It is interesting how quickly and firmly she sweeps the 
issues involved with Sirius, his life and death, under the rug in 
HBP, rather like someone trying to dispose of nuclear waste.  But 
once again, the damage is done and she can't undo it without altering 
one of her own basic rules (no coming back from the dead) so she's 
stuck with it.  

Dumbledore, now, is another question entirely.  Here is something 
that is VERY central to the message she's trying to sell, and where 
issues were interfering badly with getting the message across.  And 
in HBP she had a chance to deal with those interfering issues.


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