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

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 180505

k12listmomma <k12listmomma at comcast.net> wrote:          > 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 
   
  ***Katie again:
   
  I would have been pleased as punch if we had waited another year for DH and it had been a book that I couldn't pick apart for flaws on every page! It's not a bad book - it's a badly edited book. It's a book that needed to be tweaked and corrected, and wasn't given the attention to detail that it needed.
   
  As for producing a corrected series...I highly doubt it. Usually when people produce a "director's cut" kind of thing, it's *longer* than the original! That's the last thing we need!I also think that at this point (and maybe her attitude will change later) she thinks the books are just peachy the way they are, and nothing really needs to be changed. I feel like she thinks all the inconsistencies are kind of funny. 
   
  Of course, without all that stuff, would the books be too perfect, too put-together?? I wonder...sometimes things are best left imperfect.  I think what bothers me is not that the books are imperfect, but that she refuses to acknowledge that they are.  Just own it, JKR. : )
   
  For DH, specifically, though...someone needs to edit that, and fast. : ) Katie


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