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Post by playnerd94 on Aug 15, 2008 9:57:40 GMT -5
That says everything for me.
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Post by Mia Wilkins - England's Pia! on Aug 15, 2008 18:40:32 GMT -5
Taht's just rediculous!
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Post by Brae on Aug 15, 2008 19:14:25 GMT -5
Well this makes no sense. It's Harry Potter, they're going to make money no matter when they release it. They're paranoid. My words exactly!
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Aug 15, 2008 20:15:25 GMT -5
Somehow this doesn't surprise me at all... After all remeber a certain author that said she was finnished with the books but sometime later admited she was planning on a kind of Enciclopedia? The same author that in the end of the last book introduces us to Potter's brats? Ok she may be through with HARRY Potter...but somehow I have the feeling she's not over with the family...and that can end up in "The Children of Harry Potter"...and then she can keep trying to stay as the richest woman living in Great-Britain apart from Her Majesty, the Queen...
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Post by emilie hope on Aug 15, 2008 21:10:38 GMT -5
If she ever wrote more novels, I really wouldn't want to hear about Harry's kids. Now that all the bad guys are gone, there'd be nothing to talk about, except...what? Their homework and teacher problems? Harry and Ginny's marital problems?
I'd much rather hear about Harry's parents and the Marauders.
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Post by Valancy on Aug 16, 2008 3:08:26 GMT -5
I agree with everyone else that this decision makes no sense. I don't think Rowling has anything to do with it, though, it's the film production company that makes these kinds of decisions. And they've shown themselves to be greedy enough by starting to make the films before the books were finished. I actually think that Rowling was supposed to give the royalties of a potential encyclopedia to charity. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. So the motivation for that would be to make fans happy and to do something with all the information about the world she still has in her head, than to get herself more money. She was talking about the potential encyclopedia already long before the books were finished, though, that I'm sure of. If she ever wrote more novels, I really wouldn't want to hear about Harry's kids. Now that all the bad guys are gone, there'd be nothing to talk about, except...what? Their homework and teacher problems? Harry and Ginny's marital problems? I'd much rather hear about Harry's parents and the Marauders. I do agree about that. Heck, while I liked the book series I think I'd have liked it much more if it had been about Harry's parents' generation. Those parts were always the most interesting to me, and I was always dying to know much more than we ever were told. Rowling once claimed that once the books are finished we'd have all the backstory we'd want, but I most certainly don't...
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Post by Mia Wilkins - England's Pia! on Aug 16, 2008 17:34:55 GMT -5
Maybe she meant the books after HP?
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Post by Eppy on Aug 16, 2008 20:53:35 GMT -5
Oh NO!
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Post by Valancy on Aug 17, 2008 2:54:44 GMT -5
Maybe she meant the books after HP? Um... Sorry, maybe I'm just slow-thinking this morning but I can't figure out which part of the conversation you're replying to now. Care to clarify a bit?
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Post by Mia Wilkins - England's Pia! on Aug 17, 2008 11:58:09 GMT -5
I meant about the whole backstory... seeing as how we get this encyclopedia thingy??
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Post by Valancy on Aug 17, 2008 13:00:00 GMT -5
I no longer remember the exact quote, but the impression I got from it was definitely that she meant when the actual series is finished. The possible encyclopedia was still just a "might do it" idea. If she does provide more information in the encyclopedia (if she indeed writes one) that'll be nice, of course. Though I wonder if she will still then provide as much information as I'd like... Then again, maybe I'll be happier filling in the holes myself.
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Post by Mia Wilkins - England's Pia! on Aug 18, 2008 9:44:10 GMT -5
^ There's always fanfic...right?
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Post by IchBinRory on Aug 21, 2008 7:35:29 GMT -5
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