Should JKR shut up? (was Re: I am so happy...

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 178585

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "muscatel1988" <cottell at ...> wrote:
>
> the words of JKR last week in Toronto, reported in #178482:
> 
> ' "He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say
> what I say about him," she said.'

Someone else already said this, but:
WHY should Rowling be the only person in the world who doesn't have
the right to say things about Potterverse characters?

> There's actually nothing to stop her from telling us that Voldemort
> was really innocent, the patsy for an even nastier Evil Overlord who
> is an undetectable presence in the book, but really at the root of 
> all the shenanigans.  <eg>

IIRC some authors have used their equivalent as the plot for a sequel.
(Does your << the relationship between the author, the reader and the
text >> allow sequels?)

 I don't think anyone could make Voldemort INNOCENT after we saw
inside his head that he never feels as good as when he's murdering
people. But it could be presented that he never thought he could get
away with murdering people until someone talked him into it, or that
he never would have been more than just another serial murderer unless
someone had talked him into wanting to rule all wizards. It could be
presented that Dumbledore was the person who talked him into it ... I
hope that would upset more people than his sexual orientation.