I've yet to learn anything that I'm happier knowing.
*nods* This is the second half of the argument, isn't it? It's not just that extra-canon material diminishes the general sense of possibility we feel about the characters--particularly Minerva, who's got this great Zelig-like relationship with canon--it's 1) more or less guaranteed to be more normative than what I usually find in the small corner of fandom I frequent and, from what I can tell, 2) seems to be largely annotated authorial headcanon rather than a full-fledged story, which means that it tends not to lend itself to interpretation.
JKR's characters and themes got more and more complex though book six, when, faced with the task of wrapping things up, she seems to have reverted to an earlier, less-developed set of ideas and assumptions about this world. From what I can tell, Pottermore seems to have come from her early and undeveloped notes, rather than her deep thinking about what the wizarding world and its inhabitants could be. M.
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Date: 2013-10-19 12:43 am (UTC)I've yet to learn anything that I'm happier knowing.
*nods* This is the second half of the argument, isn't it? It's not just that extra-canon material diminishes the general sense of possibility we feel about the characters--particularly Minerva, who's got this great Zelig-like relationship with canon--it's 1) more or less guaranteed to be more normative than what I usually find in the small corner of fandom I frequent and, from what I can tell, 2) seems to be largely annotated authorial headcanon rather than a full-fledged story, which means that it tends not to lend itself to interpretation.
JKR's characters and themes got more and more complex though book six, when, faced with the task of wrapping things up, she seems to have reverted to an earlier, less-developed set of ideas and assumptions about this world. From what I can tell, Pottermore seems to have come from her early and undeveloped notes, rather than her deep thinking about what the wizarding world and its inhabitants could be. M.