World Building And The Potterverse

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No: HPFGUIDX 167474

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
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> I don't get that same sense from JKR.  It's not that JKR has chosen
> not to show stairs for an aesthetic reason or in an attempt to
> examine or push reader expectations.  I think it's more that she just
> forgot that there needed to be link between two floors.  Or maybe
> didn't realize she was building a two story house.
>

Well, I guess some would say that she's operating on some sort of deep
subconcious or alchemical plane in which the melding of the text with
the processes of our minds draw forth deep insights and conclusions
just as the mysterious workings of the philosopher's stone transmutes
lead into gold.  Out of the seeming incompatibility with logical minds
and symbolic text comes something transcendant speaking to eternal
processes of growth, transformation, and spiritual evolution.

Then again, maybe she's just not very good at certain things.
Consistency and believability of world and character are at the top of
the "needs improvement" list.

I don't actually think it's JUST a matter of there not being stairs or
JKR forgetting there is a second story, although I hasten to say that a
lot of times I think she DOES forget and a lot of times I think there
really AREN'T stairs.  Sometimes, however, particularly with regard to
character motivation, I think the stairs are there and the second story
is there, but she forgets that WE can't see the stairs.  After all, she
has lived with some of these characters in her head for, oh, close on
16 years now.  The reasons for there actions, the meanings behind there
words, the stories freighted in their crypticism and ellipses, are
perfectly clear to her.  She often forgets that they are most certainly
NOT perfectly clear to anybody else.  Often when a mystery arises it
isn't that JKR is being clever or mysterious or conducting an
alchemical experiment or laying the groundwork of plot or anything
else, its that she honestly thinks she's "dropping anvil sized hints"
and just doesn't understand why they seem to be bouncing off everyone's
umbrellas.

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