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Originally Posted by Conan46
For me the 7 books are canon. I've not been impressed with Rowling's continued tinkering, it reminds me too much of how Lucas could not quit changing Star Wars. My daughter bought the play. We read the book series together as she was growing up. If she likes the book I might borrow or buy one for myself, but my enthusiasm is low. And we were out at midnight for the new book releases years ago. I love and still read the books, but having a growing concern Rowling is going to turn me against the series if she doesn't let it go at some point. It's a modern classic, let's not "Disney" the thing to death.
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I think that what happened is that both Lucas and Rowling got a lot of questions about backstory that they hadn't really thought about, so they winged it. Plus, it was so successful that there is a lot of pressure to continue the franchise.
I know that with Star Wars, Lucas envisioned a 9 movies fairly early in the process. The original idea was to do the first 3, go back and do the 3 early movies, then finish the last three movies with the original actors, but as the years went by, that became impractical.
I think that Rowling's best bet would be to do something like the new movie, i.e. move on from Harry Potter and explore that universe with different characters. She talked about writing some books from Colin Creevey's point of view.