I agree with other posters that imagination and creativity are about pushing or breaking boundaries; logic and reasoning may be about the problem solving of attaining mimicry, and that's a separate challenge.
And in some sense, to gain control over its world, the natural instinct of the human brain is to categorize, set up dichotomies i.e. canon vs. AU, female vs. male, etc. Rising above that subconscious action, the ego can begin to push these categorizations forward and beyond unto a greater understanding. Then it turns out that JKR has no more a monopoly on the characters she creates than those who recreate them by reading. How can Now!JKR, who is as different from Then!JKR as her readers, have any more right to ownership? That's the stuff of intellectual property laws and Western societal norms. Communication breaks down once each party starts to horde that which cannot be owned.
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Date: 2006-04-20 01:48 pm (UTC)And in some sense, to gain control over its world, the natural instinct of the human brain is to categorize, set up dichotomies i.e. canon vs. AU, female vs. male, etc. Rising above that subconscious action, the ego can begin to push these categorizations forward and beyond unto a greater understanding. Then it turns out that JKR has no more a monopoly on the characters she creates than those who recreate them by reading. How can Now!JKR, who is as different from Then!JKR as her readers, have any more right to ownership? That's the stuff of intellectual property laws and Western societal norms. Communication breaks down once each party starts to horde that which cannot be owned.