J.K. Rowling tweets "How would HP books look from Draco's perspective

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/475975334597492736


I'm mostly numb to JKR more questionable interview / pottermore / whatever HP cannon "explanations".
And I understand that she might have done this one just to show how much attention she pays to fandom. What with tweeting answers to fans and following HP tag on Thumblr.
But this still annoyed me.
Even if you are tying to be funny and don't really like the character you've written: this still shows a incredible disdain and lack of understanding of Draco and people who like him or find him sympathetic.

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[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

Even if you are tying to be funny and don't really like the character you've written: this still shows a incredible disdain and lack of understanding of Draco and people who like him or find him sympathetic.

Well, yes. That self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and contempt for other people's interpretations (which are perfectly reasonable, given the text) are hallmarks of narcissists. Those are among many reasons I've referred to Rowling as probably being a narcissist. I will continue to do so, whether other people on this forum like it or not. Calling someone a narcissist when all indications are that they are one is not insulting them. It is stating a fact.

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

I will never understand the authors who insist that there One True WayTM to read their books.
Not agreeing with the other people's interpretations (or even finding them outright wrong or funny) is one thing. But loudly fighting all those things you see as "incorrect"?
Give it a rest already.

The more I read JKR's interviews (and I even tried reading her new "Cormoran Strike" book) the more I agree with you about Rowling probably being a narcissist.
The Harry's narcissism I could have chalked under him being a kid and later a teen. But in this new book Jo writes from two adult POVs. And guess what? Both of them read as utterly narcissistic.

Well, they do say "write what you know".

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of her other books, and I don't intend to. However, I did see the recent USA Today review by Charles Finch of her new book, The Silkworm. Make sure you're not eating or drinking anything before you read the following quotation. It's described as:

"...a great detective novel: sharp, immensely readable, warmhearted but cool-headed, with a solution worthy of the immaculately plotted Harry Potter series....The writer she most resembles to me is Charles Dickens: Like him, she has prodigious, otherworldly gifts of invention, and like him, she has a fierce satirical instinct....reading [JKR's pen name author has been] pure joy....The last line of Silkworm, which will lift the hearts of readers who have come to love its deeply sympathetic characters, offers the prospect of more of that joy both for her and for us."

I'll let the readers of this insert their own exclamations of hilarity or outrage.

I am sorry to say that reviews of big name authors and musicians in major publications can no longer be trusted. No matter how bad their work, it will always get rave reviews because publications don't want to alienate them. You're almost better off reading the reviews on Amazon.

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

--That self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and contempt for other people's interpretations--

That also describes Albus Dumbledore who she calles the "epitome of goodness"