[HPforGrownups] Should JKR shut up?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 178322

>>   ***Katie responds:
>>   Amen, sister. I  wish JKR would just stop talking. It seems like
> after 10 years of keeping  mum, she has a bad case of verbal
> diarreah. Everything she says makes me  wonder if she even wrote
> these books!! (Just kidding, but  really!)
>><SNIP>
>
>
> Alla:
> I do not understand this  at all. It is not like JKR went on the
> stage and out of the blue started  screaming OMG Dumbledore is gay.
>
> I mean, I do understand your view that  I snipped. Sure, I would
> prefer it being in the books as well, but she was  ASKED the question
> about DD's love life. It is not like she even said she  wanted to
> give a statement or something.
>
> What was she supposed to  do, say it is a secret or something?
>

I am one that wishes that JKR would shut up. The interviews after the 7th 
book have literally come out of Rowling's ass- made up on the spot and 
without thought. She has inconsistencies, and has contradicted herself 
several times. Now she's going off the deep end, bringing in a subject that 
I think deserves a much deeper back story rather than the flippant comment 
she's giving us now. I can't believe people cheered her announcement!

Some have also asked that same question in a different form: What was she 
supposed to do, lie about it? Um, not saying anything for the sake of 
prudence or protecting the innocence of the children you are talking to 
isn't the same as lying. She could have answered without lying or saying 
it's a secret.

Someone asks me if I love my husband- I merely say yes, we've been married a 
long time, and not describe in detail the wild sex we had last night. She 
could have just said "yes, he had a lover in his youth", and left it at 
that. Saying he was gay was going into details that were best left unsaid. 
She could have also said "Yes, but that is a much deeper story that I might 
go into in the future."

I do agree, there wasn't a point to this announcement. If she wanted to 
write a story about a gay Dumbledore in his youth, well, that's what books 
are for- developing those stories in context. The same with the future of 
the Ron, instead of changing her mind with every interview that she gives.

Shelley