[the_old_crowd] Re: OT: Intro Profile

[Catherine Coleman]

--- davewitley <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> > Why do you have mixed feelings about jkrowling.com?
> 
> For background, see the thread beginning at 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/114977
> 
> I am not as bothered as some of those posters were: my personal 
> defence mechanism is to consider JKR in those situations as being a 
> reader, a very knowledgable reader, true, of her works rather than 
> the omniscient author.  Not because she is not omniscient, but 
> because she can't access all her own thoughts at a time, let alone 
> all their implications.  However, she is clearly in a very powerful 
> position to scupper reader interpretations, and on the whole, while 
> I enjoy her little revelations as much as anyone, in the long term I 
> think she would do better to let her books do the talking.  Ask 
> Heidi about H/D.

Yes - I feel much the same way about some of the online chats.  I don't think I really wanted her
to answer questions such as "Is Snape a vampire", for example.   I love knowing at the time, but
when I think about reading the next book, in my heart of hearts I know that I would rather have
waited.

> 
> > Under "Other things we might want to know about you" can you think 
> > of anything else we might *really* want to know?
> 
> Ah, a very Dumbledorean question.  I feel Sirius has the best 
> riposte: "Come on, Catherine, you can do better than that!"

Damn!  Well, it was worth a try!  

 It was a mistake anyway, as ever since then people have 
> persisted in calling me Dave though I always sign myself:
> 
> David

Hmm, I don't think I've ever done so.  I absolutely loathe having my first name shortened in any
way, so don't tend to do it to others.

Catherine



	
		
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