JKR and the boys

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 161436

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> Alla,
> 
> who thinks that in general JKR got a lot of boys and girls 
> interactions spot on, but certainly did not capture all of them, but 
> only those that are necessary for the story.
>
Charles:

I think that one of the reasons we don't see a lot of those 
interactions and rounded out character development is a time thing. 
What we need to remember is days and weeks of Hogwarts life are 
snipped out of the story because they just aren't that relevant to the 
ultimate story of Harry and Voldietwit having to eventually try to off 
each other face to face. Douglas Adams, author of the wonderful 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series explained it really well in So 
Long and Thanks For All The Fish, "...the reasons for this are 
obvious: editing, selection, the need to balance that which is 
interesting with that which is relevant and cut out all the tedious 
happenstance. [...] It's guff. It doesn't advance the action..." Those 
who have read the book know that there is a great deal more, but I'm 
not going to reproduce a whole chapter of a book here. 

My point, I trust is clear. While some of the stuff that gets cut are 
things we'd love to know, they don't figure into the story she's 
ultimately trying to tell, and thus get the ax, either preemptively by 
not ever getting written, or in editing, either by JKR herself acting 
alone or in concert with her editors. The balance between ultimate 
characterization or actually getting on with the getting on...

Charles, who loves (most of) the characters and can accept a little 
bit of flatness in them for the sake of the wonderful storylines JKR 
has given us.