Deathly Hallows note #2 (spoilers for ch.s 22 and 25)

[lolaraincoat]

I think this is JKR on fiction and fanfiction, at the beginning of ch. 22, when she has Ron say: "It's a damn' sight harder making stuff up ...than you'd think. ...It was much easier pretending to be Stan, because I knew a bit about him, than inventing a whole new person." p. 345 (Raincoast hardcover edition)

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A little earlier - Luna as fan-artist?

And a little later - When Harry and Hermione and Ron argue about the Deathly Hallows story, with Harry trying to put all the clues together and Hermione telling him he's over-interpreting, doesn't they sound like us? And isn't (over-)interpretation at the heart of what fans do together?

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And Potterwatch? If that's not fannish activity, I don't know what is.

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The whole question at the end of ch. 25 about goblin vs. wizard ideas of ownership ... Goblins, who make things, say that the object belongs to the maker and can be rented but not purchased; "wand-users" say that the object belongs to the purchaser and can (like copyright) be inherited, bought and sold, and generally change hands without ever reverting to the original author. It's one of the debates over intellectual property!


Probably I'm over-interpreting here, but I think JKR loves us.

Comments

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Well ... I think I am, willfully, going to read this as JKR affirming us - saying that we exist, that she sees us, and that she likes what we do and sees it as a necessary activity (Ron saves his own life with Shunpike fic!) and an expression of love (Luna's ceiling!) even if it's not quite the same, to her, as making up the whole universe from scratch.

And hey, over-interpretation is a GOOD thing, right?

[quilt-stitcher.livejournal.com]

I must admit, one of the sweetest things in the book for me was the little golden chains made up of that special word, that Luna had painted. That's so very Luna.

I really hope they leave that detail in the film!!!

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Long before the film there will be, I promise, a zillion fan-art versions of that ceiling, and some of them will brilliant.

[elphaba-of-oz.livejournal.com]

I want the T shirt.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Actually I found it bittersweet, as it suggested that before the DA, Luna had not had any friends. And I certainly never felt that any of them considered her a "first-tier" sort of friend, just someone in their circle. It's romantic but also a little bit sad.

[quilt-stitcher.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was heartbreaking as well as sweet, absolutely. I think it's very clear how isolated she was before the DA. I love Luna. After I saw OOTP, I was hoping the final book would veer to Harry/Luna -- I saw more rapport in that pairing in the movie than I ever saw of H/G in HBP.