Journal #9
May 1, 2012
Pottermore.com
is a website created by J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, to be an interactive guide to the books.
People are able to participate in games, get sorted into the houses of
Hogwarts, and read her thoughts about certain characters, places, and objects.
I was thinking that perhaps the myth of Harry Potter, the world that not only
Rowling created but I helped to create with my imagination would not benefit
from this extra information. I remember reading her last chapter, the epilogue
for her characters and being disappointed because I had wanted to finish their
story in my mind; but yet, I knew that her ending would be what I needed because
it would feel more finite. So, using this website, I get to see where she got
the idea for the Dursleys and the history behind the first book in the series
and while I am excited she is filling in the gaps of her story; I can’t help
but feel like my collaboration with her in my understanding of the story is
being diminished. Can it be a bad thing to have myths explained to you? I don’t
think so, I think that I am just being selfish but for a moment I had to
consider whether or not these authors do an injustice when they provide further
explanations like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Similarion.
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