Respect / Unforgettable moments LONG

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 180359

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> > Zanooda earlier:
 
> > Imagine this: after publishing "War and Peace" Lev Tolstoy 
> > gives an interview where he claims that your beloved Prince 
> > Andrey was really gay! <SNIP>

 
> Alla:
 
> Yes, so?
 

zanooda:

He would be a different character, that's all :-). He wouldn't be 
worse, and he wouldn't be better - just different, with different 
motivations and life story. And if I can't see this story in the 
book, if it's just something the writer said after the book was 
published - here it becomes confusing to me.

Sexual orientation doesn't mean this much in DD's case, of course, 
but still, I feel that I react differently to some scenes in the 
book, and there is a strange mixture of old DD and new DD in my 
head :-). I'm glad that Susan and others got their wish, but I 
personally would have preferred not to get this outside-the-book 
piece of information on DD.

 
> Alla:

> But say she puts it in encyclopedia, and then it 
> becomes her written word, so how is it different from what Tolstoy 
> did?


zanooda:

Yeah, I'll have to accept it then, I guess :-), but still, it's not 
exactly what Tolstoy did - he wrote it in the book. I would like JKR 
to leave us a choice though. I would like her to write something like 
this in her encyclopedia: "I always imagined DD being gay. However, I 
didn't write it in the books, and DD sexuality is not important to 
the plot, so you all are free to imagine him whatever you like - gay, 
straight or asexual". 

I actually liked it that she said "I imagined" (or something similar, 
I don't remember exactly) words while outing DD - I still had a 
choice then :-). Unfortunately, she spoiled it all for me in her next 
interview with this "He is my character and he is what he is" 
statement. I think she did it because the reporters jumped at her 
rather agressively, and she just went all defensive and said it, but 
I really wish that she didn't ;-(.  I still believe that "he is what 
he is" only when this "what" is in the book :-).


Take care, dear Allochka! Happy New Year!