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[colebiancardi]

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>k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
> 
> Carol responds:
> " I just wish she would realize that her characters and the WW are
no longer 
> within her control. She's like a person who gives a Christmas
present and 
> then claims it as her own because she bought or made it. Wrong. The
books 
> belong to the readers, to interpret as they will (preferably in
accordance 
> with what's on the page)."
> 
>k12listmomma:
> That's how I feel. We own Dumbledore as we read him through 7 books. He 
> became ours in our heads. But I feel like she still wants to write
about 
> him, to finish creating him as a character, as if she was planning
another 
> book when she intends to show a gay Dumbledore.  

colebiancardi:

I am sorry, but JKR OWNS Dumbledore.   Others may feel that DD is
"theirs" but that is, as you stated, in your head.  And JKR has every
right to finish creating her characters as she sees fit.

Even if I disagree with it.  I don't understand this "we own the
characters because we love the books" stuff.   We've been blessed, for
good and for bad, with these characters because of the writer, not
because of us.

If JKR wants to come out and state that Lupin was really ESE, I may
not agree with that, but that is her right.  She can shape HER
characters, which she gave birth to and formed, not us, any old way
she wishes to.

Trust me, JKR has upset me with some of her statements, but I would
never go as far as stating her characters are MINE.

colebiancardi