Respect (was: Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 180337

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
What I'm NOT enjoying now is the way *some* of the information is
coming out of the interviews. It's the almost *flipness* with which
she is answering some questions that has me upset. Let me use
the "missing 24 hours" as an example. This, from the recent podcast
(12/23/07):

>> I'm gonna have to really go back through notes and either admit
that I lost twenty four hours or I don't know, hurriedly come up with
some back story to fill in. (SU laughs) Either way, you either get to
be right, or you get more story. So you can't complain. <<

va32h:

Yes, that's absolutely how I feel, but you've expressed it much more
succinctly than I could.  In all of Rowlings post-DH interviews, there
have been questions that she was clearly answering on the fly. And
sometimes that doesn't matter (the Hufflepuff Common Room description)
but sometimes it does. 

Ron works for Weasely Wizard Wheezes - no he's an Auror - no he works
for WWW.  Many of us readers have invested a lot of time thinking
about these characters; who they are, what makes them happy, what they
want out of life.  For Rowling to toss out these ideas - seeming to
show a fraction of that thought - that just stinks, IMO.  

And her comment regarding the missing 24 hours should really be the
final nail in the coffin of "it's all been planned out in precise
detail from day one."  Obviously it hasn't.  Some things were planned,
some things were made up as she went along.  And there is nothing
wrong with making it up as you go along, but be honest about it JKR. 
Just tell us that wasn't something you'd thought about.  Don't make
something up off the top of your head that is out of character or
doesn't fit what you've already written. 

One of the reasons I choose not to accept interviews as canon is
because there does not seem to be sufficient thought behind the
answers.  I'd just as soon not know about the missing 24 hours than
have to incorporate as fact something she "hurriedly made up". 

va32h