J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues

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Hiku said:

DonFerrari said:

I would say Daniel Radcliff is threating the fanbase as snowflake. If a comment the author of something make you hate something he made when you previously loved and that makes you suffer, you really need clinical help imho. People in general are imbecile and no one will know your circumstances as you do, so their opinion on you doesn't matter at all.

Well if a reader feels that they understand something the author is trying to convey, and the world they fall in love with is the embodiment of that, then to later find out that you may have misunderstood a lot of it, that this world you love and influenced your growing up is actually quite different than the one you imagined, then I can see why that can make people sad.

I would argue against it. In my opinion stories were always out of the control of the author once released. If you and the author disagree on what can be seen in the stories, then the author hasn't the higher authority anymore. The author can make opinions clear from the outright, but probably many intentions are more hidden and everyone is free to interpret them. To bring it a bit away from Harry Potter, I would bring up Shakespeare. A modern reader of Shakespeare (or visitor to a play) for sure interprets things differently from what Shakespeare thought about it. That doesn't mean the modern reader is wrong. It just means there is no 'right' interpretation of a workand more importantly nobody owns the right interpretation.

So if you see Harry Potter books in a way and feel now Rownling maybe sees things differently, than your interpretation is still right - for you.