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Originally Posted by elena
it's not finished for me.. maybe Harry's story is over, but she still must write Hogwards: a history  |
What would be the point? We know only one person would ever read it.
In addition to the book for a younger audience that we know she's working on, she's also talked about writing fiction for adults. She'll move on from this eventually. Remember, it wasn't entirely her decision to sue in this case-- WB at least was also involved.
I'm reminded of all the controversy about Salman Rushdie, and he's actually gone on to write other significant books since his bit of notoriety.
Regarding the Dumbledore controversy, I thought about this for several days since reading the above comment about her "lack of courage" in not making it more clear within the books, and of course I don't know what's going on in her head any more than the rest of us, but I suspect her point was that she didn't write Dumbledore as "obviously" gay because
it doesn't matter. Just as she never mentions the race of any of her characters (the note about Dean Thomas being black was added for the American version), she doesn't specifically mention the sexual orientation of any of her characters, because it's not relevant to the plot. Which I think is a very mature approach, myself.
I wouldn't defend her on everything-- I still think it's very narrow-minded and short-sighted of her to prohibit ebook versions-- but I think she's rather a victim of the spotlight at this point. Everything she does gets examined, dissected, and criticized. I'm more inclined to enjoy the books as what they are, and move on to reading new material now that they're done.