My ego-at-the-center-of-the-universe is all purring and happy now. Thanks! :D
I wasn't aware that JKR had been commenting and then reconning her own comments on the series beyond Dumbledore's secret youthful passions. That actually puts a different spin on it for me, as it appears she's either lost or never had a perspective on the weight fans give her words. I'm willing to bet that, even with the amount of skullsweat she put into building the Potterverse, she never overthought some of this stuff to the extent some fans do. The barely-there tag scene at the end of Book 7 leads me to believe she seriously isn't thinking about these characters much beyond the final showdown with Voldemort, and doesn't come close to caring who got to be an Auror and who wound up scrubbing toilets.
There seems to be a pretty reasonable crowd gathered here, but there are some fans out there who put a lot more on what JKR says than maybe she meant.
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Date: 2007-10-31 04:39 pm (UTC)I wasn't aware that JKR had been commenting and then reconning her own comments on the series beyond Dumbledore's secret youthful passions. That actually puts a different spin on it for me, as it appears she's either lost or never had a perspective on the weight fans give her words. I'm willing to bet that, even with the amount of skullsweat she put into building the Potterverse, she never overthought some of this stuff to the extent some fans do. The barely-there tag scene at the end of Book 7 leads me to believe she seriously isn't thinking about these characters much beyond the final showdown with Voldemort, and doesn't come close to caring who got to be an Auror and who wound up scrubbing toilets.
There seems to be a pretty reasonable crowd gathered here, but there are some fans out there who put a lot more on what JKR says than maybe she meant.