Yeah, it's just really frustrating because of course there's a level where "the author is god" makes sense because what else does an author do but create people and make them do what she says they do. And the author does know more things about the characters--the reader can be wrong about their interpretation of a character. If somebody continued to insist that Peter was innocent and Sirius was the betrayer, for instance, that would be incorrect.
But still, part of the challenge of being a writer, I would think, is to get what's in your head onto the page. You can't go along with the books as a coach and tell people how they're supposed to be reacting--there are some writers who have just had to give up their original intention completely because however they wrote it it didn't come across. Places like that if fans disagree I don't think the author's opinion matters that much. It's like a joke--if you have to explain it, it's not funny. In fiction, if you have to tell me why it makes sense it might not work. If you can explain it to me in a way that makes it so it does make sense then that's great, of course. I'd rather have it work. But telling me it makes sense because the author says it does...not so much.
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Date: 2004-12-01 07:35 am (UTC)But still, part of the challenge of being a writer, I would think, is to get what's in your head onto the page. You can't go along with the books as a coach and tell people how they're supposed to be reacting--there are some writers who have just had to give up their original intention completely because however they wrote it it didn't come across. Places like that if fans disagree I don't think the author's opinion matters that much. It's like a joke--if you have to explain it, it's not funny. In fiction, if you have to tell me why it makes sense it might not work. If you can explain it to me in a way that makes it so it does make sense then that's great, of course. I'd rather have it work. But telling me it makes sense because the author says it does...not so much.