No More Stories

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 167507

I wouldn't put much stock in Rowling's assertion that there won't be 
anymore Potterverse stories.  She's been working on these for quite a 
long time, but she's still a relatively young woman.  She thinks now 
that there won't be any more, but as time goes by she will miss it, 
and want to return.  No one from HP even needs to be in any new 
creation--she could merely situate it in the wizarding world.  

I personally can't believe she'll never write about it again.  Not 
possible.  It would be like abandoning a beautiful house just because 
the owners have died.  She'll write about the wizarding world again 
at least.  That's the real genius of her books--not this particular 
story of this particular boy but the universe that story inhabits.  

Still, I'm interested to see what she's going to do next.  I can't 
see her not writing, so I want to know where she'll go from here.  


> 
> 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
>