I'm sort of conflicted. Like, I KNOW people will consider it canon and if I want to write NextGen (as I do from time to time) I'm going to have abide by it or put an AU tag on the fic (or risk people giving me grief over it). But maybe just reading about it on HP Wiki or something will suffice.
I was just talking about this last night. I'm torn between sympathy for JKR's inability to let it go, and almost-complete lack of interest in any of the random "new canon" she keeps putting out. I'll probably just mentally file it with fanfic, like I've done with any Pottermore "reveals" I happen to come across.
I'd have more sympathy for JKR if she didn't get so preachy so often.
Oh, God yes. You know, so much of what she does seems to be motivated by her after-the-fact pangs of conscience about her readership rather than what the story actually is. She hates that people liked and identified with her antagonists...well, you know, that's what happens with shades of grey, and that's what happens when your work is enjoyed by adults. And she hates that impressionable girls loved Draco. Well, girls have loved bad boys since time immemorial. Harry Potter didn't do that. It takes many girls a long time to realise that even if the bad boy is complex and misunderstood, she doesn't have to wait for him to work his shit out, she can go find a psychologically healthy guy instead. You might as well hate girls for being girls if you're going to hate the Draco thing.
I think it taints the world she created when she lets it be influenced to that degree by her views on what people should think. JKR, you're not my mother, and I'm a grown-ass woman who isn
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I'm over it, too. I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the "poorly-thought-out" aspect. But as it stands, I basically think of Pottermore and everything since as JKR's own fanfiction, no more binding on me than anyone else's. I mean, the later ad-hoc bits are about as internally-consistent with each other as my various depictions of Voldemort (from vicious with mommy issues to tormented by a continual stream of images from other people's minds). The difference is, I know each story is a different spin-off world and I know they aren't canon outside of that story. JKR...either doesn't, or doesn't understand that unless she says otherwise, as the creator of that universe, what she says is generally presumed to be canon.
Yea, I mean, creators seem to have this issue sometimes in general. Like, I remember in SW fandom there was a lot of talk about how frustrating it was that George Lucas would often give out conflicting information. But SW fandom had just at one point decided to ignore him. HP fandom...not so much.
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I'd have more sympathy for JKR if she didn't get so preachy so often.
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Oh, God yes. You know, so much of what she does seems to be motivated by her after-the-fact pangs of conscience about her readership rather than what the story actually is. She hates that people liked and identified with her antagonists...well, you know, that's what happens with shades of grey, and that's what happens when your work is enjoyed by adults. And she hates that impressionable girls loved Draco. Well, girls have loved bad boys since time immemorial. Harry Potter didn't do that. It takes many girls a long time to realise that even if the bad boy is complex and misunderstood, she doesn't have to wait for him to work his shit out, she can go find a psychologically healthy guy instead. You might as well hate girls for being girls if you're going to hate the Draco thing.
I think it taints the world she created when she lets it be influenced to that degree by her views on what people should think. JKR, you're not my mother, and I'm a grown-ass woman who isn ( ... )
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