Unprofitable speculation.

You know what? I wish JKR would just quit telling us stuff. The birthdays are cute, okay, but I see no purpose in closing off whole areas of fannish thought, whether it's a plot theory like Knight2King, or a ship like Neville/Luna. To me, fandom isn't about being right, it's about having fun, and if scouring the books for evidence that Ron is Dumbledore or that Neville loves Luna is fun for you, what purpose does it serve for JKR to discourage it?

Lately she's been saying she's trying to shut down "unprofitable" lines of speculation, which makes no sense to me. Does she want us to figure out what she's going to do before she does it? Do we really want to be told anything about the last book, years before it comes out? Am I the only one who thinks the fun is in wondering? Interacting with the text, not sitting by passively waiting to be spoon-fed the right answers.

Yeah, this was brought on by the Lexicon/RAB business today. Last night I was looking up Cedric Diggory and happened to see it as I scrolled by -- must have been right after Steve put it up. And it pissed me off on a couple of levels. 1) If it didn't come from JKR, where were the spoiler warnings? 2) If it did come from JKR, why did she tell us?

This is BS. It's been about two minutes since the last book came out. Why do I already have to worry about being spoiled for the next one? And why is it considered better for us to have the right answers than to have the maximum amount of fun with the text for as long as possible?

Yes, I know nothing JKR says is stopping me from writing Neville/Luna fic (or whatever), but I do think it sucks some of the fun out of it, and it also makes me not feel like writing essays about things she's said won't happen. Essays are fun, but in order to propose a fun hypothesis, you need uncertainty. I love the uncertainty, and it seems utterly counterproductive to take away more of it than is taken away by canon.


( Under here is the information posted on the Lexicon that I'm complaining about, should you wish to see it. It's the identity of RAB. )

Unprofitable speculation.

You know what? I wish JKR would just quit telling us stuff. The birthdays are cute, okay, but I see no purpose in closing off whole areas of fannish thought, whether it's a plot theory like Knight2King, or a ship like Neville/Luna. To me, fandom isn't about being right, it's about having fun, and if scouring the books for evidence that Ron is Dumbledore or that Neville loves Luna is fun for you, what purpose does it serve for JKR to discourage it?

Lately she's been saying she's trying to shut down "unprofitable" lines of speculation, which makes no sense to me. Does she want us to figure out what she's going to do before she does it? Do we really want to be told anything about the last book, years before it comes out? Am I the only one who thinks the fun is in wondering? Interacting with the text, not sitting by passively waiting to be spoon-fed the right answers.

Yeah, this was brought on by the Lexicon/RAB business today. Last night I was looking up Cedric Diggory and happened to see it as I scrolled by -- must have been right after Steve put it up. And it pissed me off on a couple of levels. 1) If it didn't come from JKR, where were the spoiler warnings? 2) If it did come from JKR, why did she tell us?

This is BS. It's been about two minutes since the last book came out. Why do I already have to worry about being spoiled for the next one? And why is it considered better for us to have the right answers than to have the maximum amount of fun with the text for as long as possible?

Yes, I know nothing JKR says is stopping me from writing Neville/Luna fic (or whatever), but I do think it sucks some of the fun out of it, and it also makes me not feel like writing essays about things she's said won't happen. Essays are fun, but in order to propose a fun hypothesis, you need uncertainty. I love the uncertainty, and it seems utterly counterproductive to take away more of it than is taken away by canon.


( Under here is the information posted on the Lexicon that I'm complaining about, should you wish to see it. It's the identity of RAB. )