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This is kind of a pro-JKR post--take note! (Not that any one of a dozen posts analyzing her characters don't count)
I've been involved in a few conversations recently about what's going on in the tower in HBP, and it's kind of embarrassing how much I get off on being able to take two short paragraphs and pick them apart to support or deny a theory.:-) In doing this, and often getting a response of "But I can make up a different story that fits, it just doesn't leave any trace of itself in the text!" I have come to think about JKR as a writer of secrets or mysteries. It's been surprising me, I guess, because to me some of her methods are so clear and so constant I'm surprised when someone says, as someone said to me today, "As for writing in moments of [these two characters'] interactions connected to [this big thing that's going on between them in my theory]- well, she didn't [include them] so there's not much we can do about it." I don't get that answer because, well, first because it's backwards. If the text doesn't support your theory you change your theory, you don't excuse the text and encourage it to do better next time. But also JKR *always* writes those things in. ( It's what she does in place of writing an actual mystery. )
I've been involved in a few conversations recently about what's going on in the tower in HBP, and it's kind of embarrassing how much I get off on being able to take two short paragraphs and pick them apart to support or deny a theory.:-) In doing this, and often getting a response of "But I can make up a different story that fits, it just doesn't leave any trace of itself in the text!" I have come to think about JKR as a writer of secrets or mysteries. It's been surprising me, I guess, because to me some of her methods are so clear and so constant I'm surprised when someone says, as someone said to me today, "As for writing in moments of [these two characters'] interactions connected to [this big thing that's going on between them in my theory]- well, she didn't [include them] so there's not much we can do about it." I don't get that answer because, well, first because it's backwards. If the text doesn't support your theory you change your theory, you don't excuse the text and encourage it to do better next time. But also JKR *always* writes those things in. ( It's what she does in place of writing an actual mystery. )
