Now Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts

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>> "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>> if you'd paid attention to the interviews

eggplant107
>  I've read every one, more than once.

>> "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>> you'd know where I got the idea that she
>> doesn't respect her readers.

eggplant107
>  Nope, I still don't see where you got that screwy idea.


Shelley now:
May I interject a comment here? It's not just the interviews, but the 
reader's reactions. Case in point- Dumbledore is gay. Not in the books, not 
remotely. Some of the readers were OFFENDED by that assertion, yet she 
didn't respect them enough to just leave the books where they were, and 
allow all to enjoy them without any overtone of sexual preference being 
involved in the series. Nope, after the fact, she had to go mess with things 
and stir up the water unnecessarily.

>> "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>> She appears to think that her interpretation
>> is not only the right one but the only one

eggplant107
> I would maintain she would appear that way only to someone who was for
> some reason determined to see her in a bad light.

Shelley:
I don't think so. Rowling has been very reluctant to let the readers have 
this book ending for themselves. She still wants control, as if she's 
already writing another book and planning it out in her mind. In the 
interviews between books, she was right to tell the readers, "no, this will 
go another direction", but since she isn't writing an 8th book (since the 
interview admitting the idea does appeal to her is hardly an admission that 
she's actively writing one NOW), then it's really rude of her to insist who 
marries who and keep changing her mind about things such as Luna-Neville to 
now be Luna-grandson of Newt Scamander, and telling us of Dumbledore's 
gayness, instead of letting the readers decide. It would have been better to 
let the readers take it for themselves to build a future for Harry and his 
friends in their minds and works of fiction, instead of insisting, YES, 
INSISTING CONTROL by forcing all the details in her interviews and on her 
web site. It's as if she really isn't done writing the Harry Potter world.

I really thing you are missing the mark, Eggplant, when you assert that only 
people who are determined to see Rowling in a bad light would come to such a 
conclusion, because I have no such intent (to smear Rowling) when I come to 
the conclusion that Rowling really has a hard time letting go of the end of 
this series. That doesn't put Rowling in a bad light (in my mind) if she 
still wants to control exclusively the Harry Potter world. I have no problem 
with admitting that a person is controlling and demanding when it comes to 
material that they created. Rowling isn't the first artist to want to have 
absolute control over their material. She's shared in only in the idea that 
she allowed us to read it, and develop fanfiction about it, but outside of 
fanfiction, we aren't allowed to develop our own ending for ourselves.

eggplant107
> Of course not, nor does she demand I do so. If she really felt the way
> you claim she does she would try to stop fan fiction and not encourage it.

Shelley:
Ah, but fanfiction is FAR from actual published works. In that department, 
published works, we do have evidence of Rowling's control, for she is suing 
a fan who was putting together an encyclopedia of details from the works so 
far (most of which was already published on the internet,BTW), because it 
was Rowling herself who thought about possibly doing one for charity. She's 
maintaining her absolute control by that lawsuit.  Fanfiction, on the other 
hand, is free and out there on the internet, and everyone knows that it's 
far from canon. This encyclopedia that she is suing about would be canon, 
because it would have been taken directly from the books themselves, a 
compilation of details already given.