[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control - It's All True

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 180504

List elves, please delete the last- it sent without any comments added- 
post! I didn't mean to sit "send"!

> Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:          <<<SNIP>>>
>
> Carol, wondering what the books would have been like if JKR had been
> allowed to take her time and the editors had been less leery of
> changing a single word from her pen or keyboard or pointing out
> inconsistencies and requiring her to correct them
>
>  ***Katie:
>  Forgive me the one-liner, as I iron my hands and beat my head against my 
> keyboard...BUT...the short answer is - They would have been much better 
> books, especially DH. Much, much better. Katie


I wholeheartedly agree!!! I wonder if, some time into the future, if JKR 
will look at all these complaints the readers are giving and then be able to 
objectively edit her own material (or with a team) to produce an EDITED 
series- one with all the dates updates, the lunar cycle corrected, the 
correct summer constellation mentioned, the classrooms in the right places, 
and so forth, so that it reads without all the little inconsistencies that 
have given us so much room to comment on and speculate the reasons for the 
errors.

Certainly, I would have waited a few more months for the last book, and 
would not have yelled at JKR if she said she needed extra time for editing 
to get it just right. We would have all benefited!

Shelley