[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts/ some War and peace spoiler

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 180318

> Alla:
> Specifically what I am disagreeing with is that she cannot say that
> her version is official, you know?

Shelley:
This is how I see it: Five years from now, 10 years from now, 50 years from 
now, people will be picking up the HP books and read them for themselves. 
They might not even know about the interviews that Rowling gave after the 
7th book was finished. Thus, when they read about Dumbledore in particular, 
they will read him untainted by that interview. They will have a pure 
experience with the books, as they are written. There are some of us now 
that are saying that her interviews are so full of contradictions, and 
post-7th regrets that she didn't write this-and-that that it doesn't even 
line up with what she wrote, so much so that we are much happier rejecting 
the interview information and go back to our pure experience with the books. 
I was happy with Rowling when I was book-only purist. I'm majorly unhappy 
with Rowling's interviews post DH. Call me wrong for wanting to be a 
book-only purist, but that's the only way I can live with this series.

> Alla:
> I disagree that she is not entitled to talk about the characters as
> much as she wants to. I think she earned that right.

Oh, she has the right to have interviews all she wants. And, she has the 
right to make herself look like an ass too- none of us control what comes 
out of her mouth- to make herself look better, or to make herself look 
worse. Excuse some of us if we say plainly that she was better keeping her 
mouth shut than to go on the way she has.

> BUT I think that JKR's version is official and she has a right to say it.

Shelley:
The only part that is official is what's in print.  The dispute here is what 
part of print do we consider official- the 7 books series, or the 7 book 
series and her web page, or the 7 book series with her web page AND all the 
interviews that she's given where she contracticts herself with other 
interviews and even with some of the 7 book material??? Huh? Which is the 
"official" part? You may live by every word that proceedth out of the mouth 
of Rowling, but not I.

Her works are no different than any other art work. Once it's hung in a 
gallery, you can't stand over it 24/7 to tell people what you intended to 
paint, and how to look at that canvas. You must step aside and trust that 
artwork now has a life on it's own WITHOUT you. She sold her books, ya know? 
And we bought them, you know? They are out of her hands, out of her control. 
Rowling is still hovering over her creation, telling people how to view it. 
That's my criticism of Rowling- that eventually she has to stop being that 
doting, protective mama. (thanks va32h for sharing that word picture- yes, I 
can date this son by myself and you, mom, please step aside! I have a book 
to enjoy without you needing to be there!)

I still maintain that if she wants a gay Dumbledore, she's got to write one. 
Not merely imagine that he always was. Not demanding after the fact that she 
intended to paint one.  I can imagine that I painted some great world class 
painting, but really it's up to other people to see my painting and decide 
for themselves if it's really that good. I can read for myself and see that 
DD isn't gay in the series, thank you very much. My DD from the series isn't 
anything like that. If some want to take her interview and reimagine their 
DD that's in their heads, that's ok, but that was never the same as Rowling 
writing a gay DD from Book 1.