[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts/ som...

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Alla:
>
> So tell me are you upset about any other  statement in her interviews
> besides Dumbledore being gay? It seems to  be the only interview you
> keep mentioning.

Shelley:
The gay  Dumbledore is the most obvious one, of course- the major goof. But I 
did  mention others- the changing of her mind of who Luna would marry, and 
the  past one about saying that someone in the books would start to use magic 
 
later in life. 



Sandy:
 
Okay, I'm going to jump in on this too. I am going to  agree with Shelley's 
assessment of the Dumbledore statement in that it was the  most obvious one, 
made up of whole cloth and out of the blue, for what purposes  I am still trying 
to determine. There was absolutely nothing in canon to point  us in this 
direction. But the conflicting post DH statements she gave that  irritated me the 
most, and caused me lose respect for her, was the Trio's  professions. A week 
or so after the book was released I watched, and taped, an  interview she did 
with one of the major USA networks, and can't remember which  it was. In that 
interview she was asked about the Trio's professions, and she  stated that 
Harry and Ron were aurors and Hermione was at the MoM. The very next  day she did 
a live chat on the internet, was asked the same question, but this  time she 
gave a different answer. On the live chat her answer was that Harry was  an 
auror and that Ron was working with George in the joke shop. Huh?! Which one  
was it? She had also changed the statement about Luna. In the interview Luna was 
 not married, in the live chat Luna was married to Whoever Scamander. Again,  
which was it? That's when I formed the opinion that she was making things up 
as  she went along and that you couldn't trust anything she said. She couldn't 
keep  straight, from one day to the next, what she had already said. You 
would think,  after all of the years she spent developing and living with these 
characters,  that she would know exactly how each one turned out, especially the 
Trio, but  that was obviously not the case. If she hadn't definitively 
decided all of this  yet she should have kept her mouth shut until she did. She 
could have used any  excuse to do so from demurring until everyone had had a 
chance to read the book,  or saying she would reveal all of that in the 
encyclopedia. Another option would  have been to say that she would let the readers 
decide that for  themselves.
 
I honestly don't know how anyone can consider her spoken  words as canon. She 
has changed them too many times. What she has written in the  books is canon, 
what she has *said*, even if it's in print on her website, is  not. Who knows 
what she will change between now and when/if she ever publishes  the 
encyclopedia. or Scottish Book, as she calls it? In my opinion, she would  have been 
better off keeping her mouth shut for a while. If she had she wouldn't  be 
subject to this criticism, that some seem to be so offended that she is  getting. 
I am far less critical of the books than I am of her post publication  
interviews. But either way, people are entitled to their opinions and have the  right 
to express them, whether or not they are favorable to JKR.
 
Sandy



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