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[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180206

Julie:

As for that argument about who owns the characters, well JKR doesn't 
own
them in
the sense of how we individually see them, but she does own them in 
a sense
that
she could at any time decide to write another book about them, 
making any
changes
she wants to their lives. For example, she could have Snape reappear 
19
years later
as Albus Severus goes off to start Hogwarts, saved by Fawkes, by a 
time
turner, by
his own potions, or whatever (after all there was no body mentioned 
in DH,
and no
portrait). She's likely not going to do this, but she *could*. She 
owns
Snape that way,
dead or alive, as well as the other characters, and I think we have 
to
respect that (I
do anyway), even while we can continue in our hearts and minds--and 
for
some, in
fanfic--to see them absolutely any way we want (which is how we each
individually
own the characters). <SNIP>


Alla:

This is basically an agreement, but hopefully I can develop the 
point somewhat.

I mean, basically I understand the idea when people do not want to 
hear the author's interpretation (even though I also think as I 
mentioned in the past I think it is easy to ignore them from your 
mental picture) because it interferes with their own picture, I do 
get it.

But displeasure about JKR saying for example that she wants her 
version to be official, that I do not get and will never get.

I am sorry, but no matter how you look at Snape for example, no 
matter how you view the character without JKR there will be no 
Snape. It is to me as simple as that.

Without JKR there will be no Snape or Harry or Sirius or any other 
character. I mean, I know everybody knows that, but in my mind by 
virtue of that her version IS official. If one feels that what she 
says about characters interferes with their pictures or one does not 
like tone of the interviews, okay, I understand and accept it, but I 
will never agree that our versions of the characters are the SAME 
value as JKR's.

They appeared in her imagination NOT ours, therefore yeah, I totally 
respect that we can look at them and modify as much as we wish, but 
modify is the key for me here. We would have NOTHING to modify and 
argue about without JKR giving them to us to play with.

We did not invent those characters, she did and therefore if she 
feels some obsessivenness over her babies she spent so much time 
with, well, you know what? I am going to forgive her that, even if I 
understand how it can come up as obsessive and patronising.

I happen to think that she earned the right to be obsessive as the 
creator of the universe. This is my opinion obviously.

To me it is the same as reading well written fanfiction, which 
develops my favorite adults MUCH better than JKR ever did and then 
reading the review which says that your version is so much better 
than JKR's.

NO, not to me, no matter how much I enjoyed the story, I would never 
agree that the story which is written in somebody else's universe is 
better than the original.

Without the original, fanfiction author would have nothing to play 
with, no characters to develop further, etc.

I mean, in that clip the woman draws the trees of the second 
generation, she knows whom Draco married, all other small details. 
She worked them all out, they are still in her head.

So, yeah, my opinion only.

Alla