No More Stories

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 167498

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
> > So, how do you think JKR will close off the possibility of new 
stories?

va32h here:

With lawyers? Honestly, I don't see how it is possible. Even if she 
kills off every character, there could still be stories of Harry in 
the afterlife, or "pre-quels" with the Marauders. Even if she ends 
the story by saying that none of it ever happened - that Harry Potter 
was a normal boy who had a psychotic break on his 11th birthday and 
hallucinated this entire world (perhaps based on a castle figurine 
inside a snowglobe ;) -- the determined and enterprising fan can 
simply dismiss all that and come up with an alternate ending. 

And HP fans are nothing if not determined. The tenacity with which 
people cling to theories, even when JK herself has shot them down, is 
proof enough of that. 

I think JK is being optimistic when she says that there will be no 
further need for more stories. She is done telling the story *she* 
wants to tell, but for those who want to imagine more - there is no 
end in sight. 

va32h