Re: "issues" that should be resolved in book seven?

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"David Sueme" <dsueme@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched us with:

Troels Forchhammer wrote:


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note please Mr. Forchhammer's use of the subjunctive "would be".
What he means is that if my observation/speculation is true, then
and only then is HP6 non-canon.

Naturally ;-)

And if your proposition is true, then the chapters that are fully
written by Rowling will still be canonical.

Troels steadfastly refuses to offer an opinion on my speculation.

It does seem to me unlikely, but it's too interesting to just dismiss
it ;-)

because the canon would be that which is an authentic work
by Jo Rowling and about Harry Potter.

But what is an "authentic work" "by" Jo Rowling?

Ask the various Shakespeare scholars what their exact criteria are.

I agree, btw, with that result. But I think that you might be
called on to tell us why this distinction alone determines canon
status.

The difference, as I see it, is that in one case the basis for the
influence of other people is a full narrative which is then modified in
very minor ways (I won't try to set up a percentage of how much of the
original text that can be cut or modified, but definitely less than a
quarter) with the full co-operation of the author. In the other case,
the basis is a sketched plot-line that has to be fleshed out to a full
narrative written by somebody else, and then modified in co-operation
with the author.

The scripts for the Harry Potter films are not part of the canon either
-- they have, in essence, been written as full narrative (in the
somewhat special style of a film script) by Steve Kloves using the
applicable Harry Potter novel as the basis, the skeleton plot. In this
way the films, in terms of canon, are not any different from what a
ghost-written book would be.

BTW, Troels, I have it on good authority that one of your sons is,
even as I type, upstairs in his bed, under a blanket tent and with
a flashlight, _drawing a picture of the Holy Phrophet Muhhamad_

Ah, so that's what he was drawing -- I couldn't make it out.

So you noticed the cartoons row as well -- it seems to have gathered
rather a lot of attention all around. As is my wont I tend to see
things both ways and I am not as staunch a defender of the freedom of
insult as I am of the freedom of expression . . .

The Danish Director of Public Prosecutions made the decision not to
prosecute Jyllandsposten for blasphemy, based on some rather subtle
arguments (I do not have the legal training necessary to fully follow
the argumentation), but still expressed some criticism against the
paper. The decision can be found here:
<http://www.rigsadvokaten.dk/Default.aspx?id=176&recordid176=887>
with an English version hiding behind the Danish text "Afgørelse
engelsk", but available as a .pdf file here:
<http://www.rigsadvokaten.dk/ref.aspx?id=890>

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