JKR should let other writers create stories in the Harry Potter universe

[Sammael]

I just saw the latest fantastic beasts movie, and I get the same vibes from the world that I got while playing knights of the old republic and thought this was a great universe to live in. It's a fun universe to watch on the big screen, but it needs more legs to expand outward. I have read that Rowling does not want to give up any control, so this is not likely to happen, but if she ever did, I think we'd get more interesting expansions.

[Starter Set]

I can understand an author who wants to keep control over her or his creation. What i would love from Rowling though is to stop changing stuff from her HP books on a whim or because she needs attention.

Ok, we get it lady, you're so fantastically progressive, Albus is gay, Hermione is (despite years and years of products approved by Rowling showing otherwise) black and of course Hagrid is a transsexual vegan.

Can you give it a rest now?

[Wiccan]

I can understand an author who wants to keep control over her or his creation. What i would love from Rowling though is to stop changing stuff from her HP books on a whim or because she needs attention.

Ok, we get it lady, you're so fantastically progressive, Albus is gay, Hermione is (despite years and years of products approved by Rowling showing otherwise) black and of course Hagrid is a transsexual vegan.

Can you give it a rest now?

Even the people who want and ask for representation hate it. Because it's all bullshit. 100% "Tell don't show". And when she acts like she always had it in mind it's just ridiculous.

[Starter Set]

Even the people who want and ask for representation hate it. Because it's all bullshit. 100% "Tell don't show". And when she acts like she always had it in mind it's just ridiculous.

Shame cause the Albus/Grindelwald love story is a pretty good idea. But her attitude comes out as so freaking fake.

Pretty aggravating also is that of that love story, not much is said in the recent movie.

[choptop]

I can understand an author who wants to keep control over her or his creation. What i would love from Rowling though is to stop changing stuff from her HP books on a whim or because she needs attention.

Ok, we get it lady, you're so fantastically progressive, Albus is gay, Hermione is (despite years and years of products approved by Rowling showing otherwise) black and of course Hagrid is a transsexual vegan.

Can you give it a rest now?

Is this for real?

[LoganAlpha30X33]

I don't think so, I think that some fans just view Rowling as trying to please everybody so she keeps changing her mind after everything was said and done and trying to say that this character was this or that after the fact, or this character should have been with this one...

I think though that if Rowling had been more forward with Dumbledore she could have run into problems, an old gay guy in robes spends a lot of time alone with a very impressionable young boy...that could easily have been viewed in a very negative way-some could almost see it as like that old guy on Family Guy---sure that's not how it was but..., didn't after Harry died at the end he turned up in the afterlife or whatever it was naked at first...

Not saying that the books shouldn't have been diverse or anything of the sort...

As for new stories, I'd think that we'd need to get totally new characters outside of a very few returning ones like the teachers and Hagrid that would help when needed but that he wasn't as big in the new story as he was in the original and have say Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff play more of a role...as we never really got to see Hufflepuff's common room and all...

[Coin Biter]

No, I think it’s fine to just create stories herself. We have more than enough Harry Potter as it is. Besides which, although it’s not that there aren’t equally good or better writers; it’s that stories written by others would have a different vibe, a different feel - it wouldn’t be the same thing.

[Coin Biter]

While I suppose as comic fans we’re all profoundly familiar with vast entertainment juggernauts that expand and redefine created universes... it does get a bit tiring. Amazon are going to be running stories set before the Fellowship of the Ring. This will be ersatz Tolkien - you can’t really write like Tolkien unless you are a early 20th century Anglo-Catholic academic philologist and First World War veteran who specialises in ancient Germanic literature and has a profound distrust of modernity Granted, it’s somewhat easier no doubt to get into the Potterian mindset, but surely we’re better off leaving well alone?

Memories of that grotesque Hobbit cash grab burn deep.

[LoganAlpha30X33]

I think that it'd only be a problem if said new writer tried to either change a lot of stuff or write more about Harry and his group, if the new writer say started with like Rose's children's age group then it'd probably be fine, as i'm sure that given a non Voldemort enemy there'd probably be plenty of baddies running around, wannabe leaders and such...as then the different writing style wouldn't be so jarring, and if the writer used a different main character then the way that the books were written would change...

[kjn]

I can only think of a single literary author who created a setting that has spawned successful offshoots involving multiple authors, and that's HP Lovecraft with his Cthulhu Mythos (there might be more). I believe there are a couple of elements that led to that.

1. HP Lovecraft was already highly collaborative during his lifetime, inviting other authors to play with his concepts and then integrating the new takes that he liked into his own work.
2. Lovecraft's works were based on a setting and tone rather than characters, and the premise is based on how the setting affects the characters. In the Potterverse, everything is told through the lens of Harry Potter.
3. Followup authors were given high creative freedom, including the freedom to ignore each other. There was no push towards a fixed canon of continuity or a setting bible.

None of the above is true for JKR. At best we would get something similar to the "approved" sequels like the late Tom Clancy "collaborations".

[Ramsay Snow]

and of course Hagrid is a transsexual vegan.

Personally, I think it would be fabulous if Hagrid was a transsexual vegan.

Shame cause the Albus/Grindelwald love story is a pretty good idea. But her attitude comes out as so freaking fake.

Pretty aggravating also is that of that love story, not much is said in the recent movie.

The Albus/Grindelwald love story will likely be expanded upon in the next film. If the strong hints we got in this current film is all we'll get, then your viewpoint certainly has merit.....That said, I won't be surprised if it doesn't get expanded upon. Whether it's Rowling, the production company, or whatever else, they may not want to offend the snowflake-conservative portion of their fanbase. Personally, I doubt Rowling gives a **** about them, but we'll see.

As for Fantastic Beasts 2 (I was surprised there wasn't an overall thread on this film), I loved the movie and felt it was far superior to the first FB film, although I thought the first one had a more epic final fight scene.

You can throw my opinions with a grain of salt, though, as I'm not a huge fan of the original Harry Potter series. I thought they were just OK (I saw them all), I enjoy Fantastic Beasts far more than the original Harry Potter movies.

[MindofShadow]

Is she responsible for that terrible Cursed Child thing?

[theoneandonly]

frankly I feel that most of the interest in the franchise has been diminished. I didn't like the movies particularly and the cursed child play/novelization came off as uninspired fanfic rather than any worthy addition to the lore so I don't care if she continues to churn out more of HP lore in various media or not.(most likely she will. got to pay the bills.) let alone if anyone else is interested in carrying on in her stead.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

I feel like Harry Potter is proving itself to be like Star Wars where the universe feels really big when you have a narrowly defined scope of story, but it actually feels smaller when you try to expand and tell additional stories because they just didn't create enough to justify it. Yeah it's big when you keep it between three friends who are in the same school campus 90% of the time and then they go to one alley every once in a while. The Fantastic Beast stories just feel blank. The world doesn't support an abundance of stories and it was clearly tailored towards one plot line.

[Captain M]

Not exactly the place but there doesn't seem to be another thread for the movie.

I loved Queenie's arc so much. I'm glad they expanded her character and role noticeably.