Authorial Backlash (was: Other News)

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 178224

> Allie:
> 
> <snip of JKR's pre-planned examples> 
>
> I don't know why there is such a strong backlash against the author 
> now that the story is finished.  Anyone here who thinks they can do 
> better is welcome to go publish their own series of wildly popular 
> stories.

Mike:
If I may, I found the actual books very entertaining. I have often 
commented here on how JKR pulled various and numerous threads through
the entire series to my delight. My favorite being the Vanishing 
Cabinet.

It's JKR's interview comments that I dislike, both pre- and post-DH. 
In her zeal to keep her audience in the dark, she has made statements 
about the plot-lines that she has subsequently contradicted in canon. 
Broken record here, but the most obvious was the whole Secret Keeper 
thing with regards to 12 GP and Dumbledore. And if she had just not 
said anything about it, there would have been no contradiction in 
canon, because she did not define the spell in canon to the detail 
that she did in trying to explain the situation in some interview.

It's the same thing with all these post-DH "revelations" that she 
keeps coming out with. Contrary to "clearing up" some canon 
questions, they seem to either muddy the waters worse or bring in 
things that she did not put in the books. I find that very annoying. 
If it was important, she shopuld have included it. If it wasn't, then 
leave it alone and let us form our own opinion. I don't feel I need 
the author to explain her work. And I don't really care what she was 
thinking when she wrote some passage, character, or plot-line. If I 
can't figure it out, shame on me. If she didn't write it well enough 
for me to figure out, it's too late now. I'll interpret it as best as 
I can, throw out the things that don't work for me and maybe add in a 
few that makes the story come together better for me. I don't need 
her help in determining what those things might be, thank you very 
much.

I don't ask anyone to agree with my interpretations, even if I do 
post them here for comment, criticism, or rebuttal. I like to solve 
the mysteries in this series, and I feel there are still some left to 
solve. I will be posting on those, as well as commenting on others. 
JKR didn't solve all the mysteries in her series and that's just 
fine. I rather enjoy doing it myself. And she has had her chance, now 
it's my/our turn. If it wasn't important enough to her story to solve 
in the books, then leave it to our imaginations and interpretations. 
Stop trying to direct out discussions with these new revelations. Or 
don't, I don't care because I'm not counting ANYTHING ever said 
outside of the books as canon. Your mileage may vary, that's just the 
approach that makes the most sense for me.

Mike