Pottermore leak

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

Pottermore, if the yahoo info below is true apparently it's a online game...why am I not surprised - IF it is a game, who wants to take a wild guess they want us to pay to play it.

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/792-report-j-k-rowling-to-unveil-harry-potter-online-game

Comments

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

- by the end she was so popular that she probably figured that she could write anything and have it sell well no matter how bad it was. And that's pretty much what happened.

Most certainly. We know from the documentaries and interviews and other publicity that Rowling's writing of the books was a solo effort and that she eschewed all but the most basic of editing. She knew anything she'd write would sell. Similarly I can understand why most/all newspaper reviews and the like of DH were positive - they couldn't afford to be known as 'the newspaper that got it wrong!'. And DH was known to be a blockbuster success before a single page was printed.

But I wonder if Rowling really knows how many mistakes are in the series, how bad the last book was. Her 'oh, maths!' personality suggests that she wouldn't attach much significance to the fact that her wand lore machinery is broken and fails the entire series, for example. Logic just doesn't mean much to her. So I really don't know if she simply doesn't see it (if she's that thick or that far removed from matters of common sense and reasoning in her fictional world) or did and just didn't care. I picked up vibes suggesting the latter with some of her post-DH publicity parties.

I am still ashamed of the glowing review I immediately posted on Amazon after reading it.

Hmmm, there's probably a certain number of posts you have to make here in deathtocapslock as penance before your soul is redeemed, then, I'd say. :-)

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

So I really don't know if she simply doesn't see it (if she's that thick or that far removed from matters of common sense and reasoning in her fictional world) or did and just didn't care.I picked up vibes suggesting the latter with some of her post-DH publicity parties.

As a would-be author I find that incredibly sad. How can someone spend that much time working on developing a world but not even try to see it through enough to ensure it makes sense, let alone is unique or interesting? What's the point of writing then except to make money? That ought to be the least of an author's concerns if they are worth anything. Is there no love for writing in and of itself? Uh... excuse the rant.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe she doesn't see the errors, or does see them but relegates them as minor issues. Certainly many of her fans do the latter. As long as Harry lived and married Ginny they didn't much care if a deus ex machina wand had to be invented to do the job with inconsistent wand lore created out of nowhere.

Maybe in that respect Rowling chose her readership well; primarily children who don't have the sense to know better, who'll accept whatever is placed before them.

Many of her adult fans state that Rowling is a 'good writer' while focusing only on a subset of her work. They ignore the bigger picture or the 'oh, maths!' details. The fact that the thing as a whole doesn't fly doesn't worry them. I can't respect that point of view - it seems childish to me - and I thank the Lord that those people aren't in charge of nuclear reactors or national budgets! - but if Rowling is like that then I guess she's not the 'sad' person you see, she *does* think she did a good job, that it made sense. Maybe those vibes I picked up back then were more impatience over people not agreeing with everything she said, or irritation with those who were picking fault, rather than personal ennui in her world.

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

I guess I just like to feel bad for people then. She's an adult. I guess she walked into it with both eyes open. ;-)