I'm Glad We did not Get all the Answers

[daimauwr]

No: HPFGUIDX 172640

vivamus42 wrote:
> I'm Glad We did not Get all the Answers
>
>   <<<SNIPPAGE>>>
> I am glad, however, that JKR had the courage to follow the story
> as it took on a life of its own. The worst thing an author can do
> to a good story is twist it out of its natural shape, damaging the
> credibility. I think no author can resist that temptation entirely,
> but if it is only done here or there, for very good reasons, it
> doesn't limit the story.
<snip>
> I am hoping we'll get answers directly from JKR on them, but in the
> meantime, I'm glad she had the courage to write the best story
> possible -- even if it did not have everything in it she thought it
> would have.

Katie replied:
> 'Ear, 'ear!
> Quite honestly, it never even occurred to me to not like Deathly
> Hallows - because I knew that was the story that was supposed to
> be told. It wasn't up to me to like it or dislike it, at least in
> a literary way, because it had such momentum.
<snip>
> In terms of not getting all the answers, I am also glad that not
> everything was tied up...leaves room for the imagination...and
> maybe another book about the WW? Love and Harry, KATIE


Daimauwr:
Somehow I don't think we needed all the answers. JK is renowned for
the red herrings she planted. For me (at very advanced years) the way in which the MAIN PLOT has been developed and resolved (Voldemort's rise, fall, rise and fall) started with a backlash of magic and ended in one, has been terrific. I have reread every book and watched the DVD's countless times. Film #1 remains my favourite because it unfolded to us a whole new world into which we could escape.

Each succeeding book has been about Harry achieving maturity through
1: A lack of magic education until Howarts,
2: Endurance - learnt from the cupboard under the stairs,
3: His need to find the right friends,
4: The angst of puberty.

and based around a single event - The Stone, the Chamber, Sirius,
Triwizard, The Prophecy, Horcruxes and finally the Shoot-out.

To JK - bravo, bravo and encore. Yes I would like to read more about
Mr Potter but perhaps where he is not the central figure but again
based around an event.

Daimauwr