As to just how mushy-minded Rowling is, it is possible. We have to admit that it is possible. Even clever people have blind spots, and she has a clear enough view of what she is doing that she often believes that she has explained things when she has done nothing of the sort. Or tells us that we will "learn all about" something or other in book such-and-such and then passes off the subject in about two sentences.
But her comment a few months(weeks?) ago when Lord Anagram was voted the "most frightening villain" in the Big Bad Read were heartening. She came out and said that Lord Voldemort was going to finally be getting some page time in Book 7. She hasn't had the chance to give him any up to now.
Well, Rowling's characters tend to reveal themselves by their actions, don't they? I think that if what Voldemort actually is doesn't match up to what other people, even Albus Dumbledore, *say* he is, we are going to have a chance to see it.
Rowling told us in '05 that Albus Dumbledore was never very wide of the mark, but she *didn't* say that he was invariabley correct in his understanding of a situation.
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Date: 2006-12-14 04:43 am (UTC)But her comment a few months(weeks?) ago when Lord Anagram was voted the "most frightening villain" in the Big Bad Read were heartening. She came out and said that Lord Voldemort was going to finally be getting some page time in Book 7. She hasn't had the chance to give him any up to now.
Well, Rowling's characters tend to reveal themselves by their actions, don't they? I think that if what Voldemort actually is doesn't match up to what other people, even Albus Dumbledore, *say* he is, we are going to have a chance to see it.
Rowling told us in '05 that Albus Dumbledore was never very wide of the mark, but she *didn't* say that he was invariabley correct in his understanding of a situation.