ESE! JKR ?

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 154621

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> OK, Lupinlore where is your shredder?  

Not shredder, dear.  Wood chipper.  Both very useful tools but for 
different purposes.  Besides, a standard shredder would take hours 
and hours to devour the books.  With a good mulcher or wood chipper 
its just a few heave hos and you're done.

I swear if JKR kills off any 
> more of my favorite people 
  I am gonna use it!
> 
> 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.  
> 

Well, JKR definitely has her neuroses.  The death neurosis is a big 
one, and I agree it's annoying and badly overdone, as well as 
contributing to a slavishness toward the hackneyed and 
outworn "hero's journey" motif.  But, it's easy for a writer to 
overdo things -- especially when they have their grand plan 
permanently before their eyes and tend to forget that everyone else 
does not.  

As I've said before, I think JKR, despite what she claims, very much 
cares if she has only six readers left when all is done.  Her twists 
and turns, particularly with DD, bespeak someone who is very much 
concerned with getting a message across clearly.  We will see if she 
succeeds, and what that message is.  Personally, I rather fear it 
will be contemptible.  But, we will see.


Lupinlore