[HPforGrownups] ESE! JKR ?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 154501

Kellie:
>
> If she stopped writing for herself I think that her books would be
> lacking. She wouldn't be writing with her heart in it, and I believe
> she does that. Her characters come to life for her and in order to
> keep that, she has to write for her, and not others.

Dave:

Of course, I realize in the end she has to write for herself.  I know
from experience what happens if you try to second-guess your readers.
But as Tonks' comments (see below) imply, there is instinctively a
"selfish" part of ourselves who want it to all come out the way *we*
want.


Tonks:
>
> The more I think about it and wonder who it will be, the more
> depressed I get.  I want the last book to wrap things up and leave
> us with a good feeling.  The good guys win, the bad guys get their
> due..  you know like an old time Western.

Dave:

I feel the same way -- Who wants to be depressed by our leisure
reading?  We have the RW for that!  Haven't the good guys been
devastated enough?  IMO, if Jo kills too many people we care about,
it will make the final victory seem pretty hollow.

Jo has made her point about evil -- She doesn't need to club us
(and her heroes) over the head with it.  We know that LV &c. are
evil b*s*a*ds and not "Whoa cool!" villians like Darth Vader
and other famous meanies in black.  The Potters, the Longbottoms,
the Crouches, Cedric, Sirius, Dumbledore -- We have plenty of proof
of how heinous and horrific the actions of LV and the DEs are --
And now we want the last book to be Payback Time.

But all this pontification is just an expression of my own
"selfish" desires.  As Tonks says, "Only time will tell."

-- 
Dave