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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Rowling should have the decency to shut up already.
Word Of God pronouncements tend to be better accepted by authors who aren't being schizophrenic about whether or not they have ended the story.
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I'm not fond of Word of God pronouncements ever; I'm in the camp that says that if it's not published, it ain't canon.
But I agree that JKR is an outlier even on the WoG spectrum. I don't have a horse in this race, especially since I thought
Deathly Hallows was so poorly conceived and executed that it ruined the franchise for me forever, but her compulsion to micromanage her fans' reactions to and interpretations of her books is patronizing and demeaning. The result is that the books don't live. If there's only one possible way of reading the text, you can read it once and let it go.
And her attempts to have it every which way, as in her "apologies" for her authorial choices, most especially in regard to the unsuitability of Hermione and Ron as a couple, are a flat-out insult. She made that choice; it's done. She doesn't get retroactive points for agreeing with the fandom.