Rowling's interviews (was A BIAS in the Pensieve)

[melclaros]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...>
wrote:
> 
> Mel wrote:

> 
> Um.  What do you expect?  What do you think she should do?  Spoil 
> the plot, or just efuse to answer all questions?



If she has no intention of "giving away" anything (and I don't know
why she WOULD want to give things away) then she should not hold the
"open forum" interviews that inevitably lead to questions she refuses
to answer. OR, out of the 10,000 questions submitted prior to the
event, choose ones she'll answer, not purposely pick out ones she can
play coy over. There's no way anyone's going to convince me that out
of the thousands of questions submitted to online and kids tv
interviews (which solicit for same) they can't find ANY answerable
questions?
If that IS the cast than she needs to quit giving interviews and get
back to writing. Which would be a good idea all around.



> 
> I don't understand.  Are you saying that she failed to deliver in 
> proportion to the build-up?  While I was not personally upset by 
> Sirius' death, the event certainly reverberated around the fandom, 
> enough for the anniversary of OOP publication to be marked by 
> memories of the shock.


I seem to remember a LOT of that "shock" being dampered by, "huh? That
was IT?"
We were numb to it by then. Sirius fans (a club to which I do not
belong) deserved better. We all did.