[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR messed up........ no.

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 178386

> Snow:
> If this author has succumbed to stereotyped tendencies, then I have to
> wonder if she maintained the story that she always "claimed"  to have been
> devoted to write. Is the story you read in the last volume, the one you
> expected? I personally feel uneasy about it. The last book felt 
> disconnected
> to the whole. I didn't feel the heart that I felt with the other books 
> which
> is why I have refrained from writing again till now.
>
> I totally enjoyed the books and the many people that I have had the
> opportunity to meet and correspond with over the years through this forum. 
> I
> have always been a proactive advocate for the author until now. I honestly
> believed she would write the story she always intended, but after this
> latest roust, I feel she may have been bought and sold at the political
> market.


Shelley now:
Yes, that's exactly what I feel she's doing. She had this great story in her 
head, and the last book starts to diverge from it. Then, all the interviews 
following seem to diverge from it even further, and that's exactly what I 
see this gay comment as being, so much so that I don't consider it to be 
canon. I really wonder if this gay thought of hers is a new one- if indeed 
she just thought of it, but that it certainly wasn't anywhere in her mind 
when she planned out this series. It would explain why it feels so 
disconnected from the series.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bunny" <bunnyc at ...> wrote:
> I for one am very very disappointed with Rowling 'outing'
> Dumbledore. <snip> I fully intended re-reading the books many
> more times and reading them to my grandchildren.  However, to
> me, this has put a completely different complexion on the
> series and I don't think I'll be able to open the books again.
> I'll be imagining homosexual connotations in everything
> Dumbledore says or does something. <snip>

Shelley:
Nods totally in agreement. It's just like everything else she said in 
interviews- that one would use magic late in life, or ones that got a 
reprieve or ones that would die, or whom would grow up to be a teacher- 
didn't we all reread the series to find the clues to whom it would be? 
There's just no way to just reread and "ignore" what has been announced from 
the lips of Rowling herself. I understand that DD will always be who I want 
him to be, but I fully agree that this revelation has tainted the series for 
me, and already I hear talk on other lists of people who are deciding that 
their younger children won't be reading the series because of this 
announcement, as that's what people are now thinking this series is about 
(for those who haven't read it fully so far). Even if you know that it's 
not, like you said, you will reread passages with a different frame of mind 
this next time around because your information base is different. There's 
just no way not to. I surely don't have a magic eraser for my brain to clean 
up things I wish I hadn't heard.