ext_12724 ([identity profile] trude.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] author_by_night 2007-09-16 07:11 am (UTC)

Re: Here from either DS or HT

Also the less sycophantic fans might ask why she gets things wrong, like DD’s death date and is it just me or did she write that DD collected James's cloak twice, once at the end of July around Harry's birthday and then again shortly before James and Lily were murdered in October.

But are fact-checking questions such as the one about the cloak really more likely to get an interesting answer than the "why was Ron angry" ones? I don't think it's wrong of you to be annoyed by it, but we've known for years that she makes those kind of errors, and if she was asked about it she would probably just say "Oops, my mistake" and change "days" to "months" in the next edition, or invent some elaborate story about Dumbledore borrowing the cloak twice, which no-one would believe anyway.

I think that the best thing Rowlings adult readers could do, if given the opportunity, would be to not ask questions about the "facts" of the Potterverse, but rather about why she made the choices she made in telling her story.
For example, the question "why did you chose to let the SPEW-storyline culminate with Ron and Hermione kissing instead of something that more directly involved house-elf rights?" would be more interesting than "what happened to the house-elves?". Also, non-confrontational questions about the religious issues you mention, or about the gender and sexuality issues that have been discussed a lot in fandom might lead to some interesting answers, though a chat or a Q&A-session might not be the ideal format for these questions.


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