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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 180374

Shelley:
I don't think so. Rowling has been very reluctant to let the readers have
this book ending for themselves. She still wants control, as if she's
already writing another book and planning it out in her mind. In the
interviews between books, she was right to tell the readers,

Lynda:
I don't see this.  So she now says that she has always seen Dumbledore as
gay. It wasn't relevant to the storyline of the books so it was never
mentioned. And that has nothing to do with the outcome of the books as a
whole. In the long run, its still her story. If it were mine, I probably
would not have mentioned that I always one of my characters who is a major
character but not the protaganist was gay when it wasn't germaine to the
plot--I'd probably say something like, "what do you imagine that character
to be. I never mentioned it in the books", but that's just me and I'm not
going to fault Rowling for doing things differently than I would have.

Lynda


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