Re: "I'll never forgive Jo for ..."

Alexandra escribió:
On 13 Nov, 00:53, "CH" <ezgl...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"DaveD" <dave...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message


So... Hi to everyone.

Hi!

I believe this is my first post here on this NG: I somehow found
myself a member through GoogleGroups and just spent an entire hour of
my shift reading this whole thread (I work at a museum bookshop and
hardly anyone ever comes in)... So thanks for the amusement :)
I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts on the latest topic...

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Umm I believe this bit of info was in her first post book interview..this
was the one where she mentioned about thinking Neville and Luna being
together would be cute..then what a week or so later she gave another Q&A
session and had Ron working with George, Luna married to Samander's son,
nephew or something..Neville working in a store in Diagon Alley??then it
changed again a few weeks later..and again later still. Now it's Ron works
with George, Neville married to Hannah Abbot whose a waitress in the
Hogshead while he's the Herbology Teacher..and all that crap.
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So, how I interpreted the interviews these were the infos on what you
mention:
1) Ron either works in his brother's shop or as an Auror; I agree
with everyone who said it's pretty obvious he helped George out with
the shop right after the war and later got into Auror training and
became an Auror, but I also agree on that she was a little
inconsistent on this: she could have been a little more specific in
the two occasions when she talked about this.

I personally don't see the problem. Ron can both be an Auror and help his brother with the store. Perhaps he invest some of what he earns as an auror in the store, perhaps he helps with the money or such. Lots of people have a career and also help with the family business. And considering how close the Weasleys are, it's even less uncommon.

2) She did say Neville and Luna together would have been cute, but
she also stated right away that that never happened as Luna went off
to travel around the wourld and finally married a Scamander, while
Neville stayed at Hogwarts to teach Herbology and eventually married
Hannah Abbot, landlady of the Leaky Cauldron after Tom (how that
relationship worked out it's a mistery to me, since one would have to
live up north nine months a year and the other was stuck in London...
still, many relationships work precisely because of such dynamics).

Unlike muggles, Neville can travel to London in seconds.

Neville working in a store in Diagon Alley?? Where did you ever read
that up? Neville's career is actually the only one mentioned in canon,
so there's hardly no doubt about it (unless, again, he worked in
Diagon Alley for a while before becoming a teacher).

She said "people would find the fact of Neville's living over a pub particularly cool." Of course, we don't know what career he chose, in the Potterverse, you don't need to be a teacher to teach in Hogwarts.

But those were not the actual points I wished to make. Beside
clarification on these few facts, I do agree that Rowling is a much
better writer than she'd sound when she speaks out loud: I adore her
work, respect her as a novelist and rejoice at the notion that she
does deserve everything she gained from this fabulous series,
especially knowing where she came from, but I just can't stand her
behaviour in front of cameras: she really looks like she'd want to be
anywhere but there, giving an interview. And she "hem"s "uhm"s and
"ahm"s a lot.

To me, that implies that she invents stuff as she's asked. Hence, the contradictions.

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Which is where my two points come together: she's not her own obsessed
fan. She doesn't keep track of each pronouncement she makes as some of
us do and she may forget some tiny details every once in a while: if
this is certainly close to unacceptable in the books (which have a
team of publishers working on them and much pressure and which we pay
to enjoy) it may happen more ferequently in interviews and other
social events. She admitted herself that she sometimes used to cross
check references on the Lexicon when writing OotP, which she wrote
during the whole marriage and second child period, which might have
taken her mind off Potter for a while. That she's not so keen on
jotting down every syllable she utters while on tour, that she doesn't
keep a journal of every new fact she's relasing and that she may be
extremely attentive in devising plots but not so focused when
submerged by fans and questions is somehow comprehensible. It's her
job, after all, and as much as she loves it it'll never be so much fun
for her as it is to us.

But that's her job. Look, I understand that an author owes us nothing, it's not their obligation to write (or write what we would want, anyway), but it is her "duty" to present a good quality job. That includes interviews.

I'm therefore not at all surprised that Steve would make a heck of a
better and more precise job on a Potter Encyclopedia than she would,
but even though I wish she could be more careful of continuity on
interviews I do think that everything coming from a different source
than the books are weaker canon:

Well, Steve's book mostly is about the information that is in the books.

it may come from the author herself
but as far as I'm concerned it's trivia and that's how it should be
treated. What you pay for is stronger than anything you get for free
on this account: so she said something on her website that ultimately
didn't match the book's plot? So what? It's not like you paid big
bucks to see the webpage. She's got a right to change her mind same as
everyone else.

Read above. You know, she loses credibility at being inconstant.

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