J.K. Rowling Wants Harry Potter Fans to Be Miserable

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Why? Because on last Friday’s Oprah, Rowling told Oprah that she could write up to three more Harry Potter novels — she has the plots all ready — but won’t. Oh, she might, she coyly supposes, at some undetermined point in the future, possibly “ten years from now,” but she “might not.” So basically, Rowling is taunting Harry Potter fans with more adventures that she can’t be bothered to actually type up. That’s just mean. She knows her jillions of fans would love for her to write more HP books. While I understand she doesn’t care if she writes more or not, I would think she’d be a little more sensitive to her fans and not announce a massive “enh, maybe” that she knows will drives them insane.

Honestly, I bet she does write ’em eventually. There’s going to be a point where J.K. Rowling is sitting in her solid gold mansion, eating a dinner of peacock tongues and dolphin livers, and suddenly realizing she wants a spaceship made entirely out of diamonds, and she’ll pop out Harry Potter and the Thing Everybody Forgot About Until Just Now. But for Harry Potter fans, that could be a very long wait indeed.

Honestly, by announcing this, Rowling is just asking for trouble. While I wouldn’t condone if someone kidnapped her and made her write a book Misery-style, I probably wouldn’t convict them if I was in their jury, either. (Via Blastr)