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agentxpndble

Inquiring minds wanna know...

Jul 26, 2007 08:53

JK gave quite a bit of additional detail on the Today Show this morning on the fates of our beloved characters... A lot of the stuff she couldn't cram in at the end of the book, she is just letting everyone know in person. Don't read the article if you haven't read Deathly Hallows or have elected to omit the epilogue from your own personal canon ( Read more... )

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nakeisha July 26 2007, 14:17:22 UTC

Thank you so much for this link; I feel more 'complete' now.

I felt that whilst for me (I'm not into HP fandom at all) the epilogue was nice and contained the two relationships I was expecting, I wanted to know more, not just about what they'd been doing, but about all the others. I understand why she didn't include details of all the other characters (as much as I'd have liked it), so at least knowing this about their jobs and Bill/Fleur's daughter is great.

Thank you.

agentxpndble July 26 2007, 14:55:18 UTC

I'm really glad she's not making us wait years for the "encyclopedia" for those details. I'm kind of all-or-nothing about it... Either give us *complete* future canon, or none at all (not have an epilogue.) The good thing about her epilogue is that she made it so distinctly "extra" - I mean, if you just really, really can't stand it, it's so easy to lop it off the end and pretend it never existed. ;-)

The thing that I'm not enjoying so much is all her talk about what she originally intended to do and what she changed along the way... I really want canon to be more solid than that and occasionally she says something that makes me mad and feel like she copped-out on something that would have been better the way she intended from the start.

nakeisha July 27 2007, 12:51:02 UTC

Even from a non-fandom prospective I can see how it would be easy to ignore the epilogue if it didn't suit; so for fans that is good.

I've heard a couple of other people saying that the talk about 'originally intended' is a little frustrating. I guess I tend to view it in the same way as I view interviews when the actor talks about the character and what changes have/have not been made and bloopers: they aren't part of canon. If they don't appear on screen or in the book then they aren't, for me, canon.

I know that some people hold the same and some a different one. However, I can see how if something is said/done that makes you think 'oh that would have been better' would be very irritating.

agentxpndble July 27 2007, 14:13:24 UTC

However, I can see how if something is said/done that makes you think 'oh that would have been better' would be very irritating.

It's not that, so much, that bothers me... What bothers me is when an author has been saying that she has had a really clear vision on how everything turns out, and that author has been weaving in a really long-running, deep-seeded mythological messages for 10 years - when she suddenly makes a huge change with a character in the 11th hour (like killing them to replace someone else who was supposed to die,) I just get a little negative. It's more about integrity and trust of the author's message/story, than a desire to have my opinion satisfied on where a character should be.

I'm getting that JK takes it all very seriously and I don't have a problem with her choices *yet* - But I'm afraid to listen to her, for fear that I will hear something that ruins the books for me because it undermines what I felt was clever, profound writing/characterization.

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eldritchhobbit July 26 2007, 17:57:41 UTC

I can't wait for that encyclopedia.

On a related note, am I a bad person because I'm lusting for this?

agentxpndble July 26 2007, 19:22:59 UTC

You'd think mere days after the latest book I could have some patience about wanting the encyclopedia, but no... Gah! I want to tie this canon up! And it's going to be *YEARS* before she publishes it. >:-P

Sorry, yes - You are the Devil incarnate... GAH! BOOK MURDERERS!!! That's not to say it isn't "cool"... But then, people think CHARLES MANSON IS COOL. Butchers.

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agentxpndble July 27 2007, 14:15:03 UTC

Hopefully she will hand out more tid-bits in the immediate future (and not make us wait 4+ years for the "Encyclopedia"!

fenice_fu July 29 2007, 07:55:38 UTC

I was disappointed in the Epilogue with how little she gave us of Draco...I would have liked to have seen if he changed much after having had his life saved twice (as he was so emphatically told by the "good guys". He wasn't a very interesting character for me until the end of 6 though. In fact I feel as if the real depth of the series started to shine with 6, especially with Snape and Draco etc.

I agree about having to wait for the encyclopedia...by that time people will have made up their own details perhaps, and it will disrupt those.

agentxpndble July 29 2007, 16:18:35 UTC

I too am very disappointed we didn't more Draco - I never was interested in him as a character until book six when suddenly, we got all this complexity in his character. I was fully expecting book 7 to follow Snape and Draco together for whole sections... Instead, we got *nothing*. I had a strong feeling in book 6 that Draco was on the edge being "lost", that Dumbledore was invested in "saving" him, that Snape needed an anchor in Dumbledore's absence to keep him "straight" (if you'll pardon the pun,) and that Dumbledore sending Snape off with Draco (because I knew his death was a set-up right then and there) was a really delicate, complicated, *interesting* dynamic. Which I *really* wanted to hear more about. Oh well ( ... )