Broomsticks And Owls

by **SunsetG|rl** » Monday 22 August 2005 8:32:27pm

I just read that JKR is playing minesweeper :grin:

and i think she must be really great at it. i mean 99 seconds on the expert level that is something.

(if you play minesweeper you know what i'm talking about). my record is just 168 seconds. which might be just because i have a bad mouse.

by **Mrs. Luca Black** » Monday 22 August 2005 9:29:18pm

Bah! I'd rather she be writing the last book than becoming an expert at Minesweeper. Get your priorities straight, woman!

by **SunsetG|rl** » Monday 22 August 2005 9:38:35pm

well she said it would be or minesweeper and gum or smoking. and she needs breaks you know... she can't write all the time...she might get insane and we might get no book in the end

by **Person1** » Monday 22 August 2005 10:33:06pm

An insane book written by a loony person....sounds interesting...

by **Mrs. Luca Black** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 1:25:20am

As if the person writing these books couldn't be slightly insane.

Luna would just seem more normal if she got much worse.

And still, there's a difference in silently playing minesweeper while you think and publicizing the fact that you do it. She should have kept that bit to herself.

by **Nightcrawler** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 8:28:49am

And still, there's a difference in silently playing minesweeper while you think and publicizing the fact that you do it. She should have kept that bit to herself.

How come? Everyone's entitled to a bit of fun now and then.

As for her priorities at the moment; she's taking a year off writing anyway, so that she can spend time with her new baby.

by **Dacre** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 9:00:33am

The way I see it, delaying the book by 5mins for mineweeper causes 5mins of suffering to a few million people, and only fun for one (JK herself)
This means she therefore isn't allowed to have fun until the book is finished, for the greater good.

by **SunsetG|rl** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 11:58:45am

you're realy taking this too serious...
gees...she's just human...she's not your dedicated slave to work around the clock on the books. you should just learn to wait. you can't go through life without patience. you'll never get anything you want at a snap of your fingers. and i don't think that 5 minutes is that much suffering. there are worse things in the world.
and no matter how much you complain i doubt she is going to stop playing minesweeper... and i made the topic just because i though it was great of her to set a record.
but aparentlly i might just be lonley thinking there's more to life than harry potter. the books are great...but they don't make a life.

by **Person1** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:04:51pm

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

JK, this whole forum is kinda a joke Sunset, chill for a bit, have a laugh....

by **SunsetG|rl** » Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:11:26pm

Person1 wrote:The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

yeah...i'm sure each and every one of us is ready to sacrifice for a "greater good" or a for a big bunch of our fellow humans...

Person1 wrote:this whole forum is kinda a joke Sunset, chill for a bit, have a laugh....

don't worry...i'm not really serious about things... i might have got carried away... :oops:

by **Nightcrawler** » Thursday 25 August 2005 5:21:57am

and i made the topic just because i though it was great of her to set a record.

I agree. It is pretty cool.

And when you think about it, at the end of they day, they are JKR's stories. She writes them for herself, and millions of other people enjoy them too. She's under no moral obligation to continue writing them, and could stop at anytime she feels like. She doesn't owe me anything.

by **thestral** » Wednesday 7 September 2005 7:43:32pm

she owes me a million pounds.

by **SunsetG|rl** » Wednesday 7 September 2005 9:19:52pm

It was your choice to buy the books.

by **Phoenix in the Ashes** » Sunday 30 October 2005 8:50:04am

What do you think would happen if she just suddenly decided to stop the books?

by **Nightcrawler** » Sunday 30 October 2005 1:20:01pm

You mean like stop them before the series is over? And never write a seventh book? Well, the fans would be very disapointed, and most of them would turn against her and send her hatemail, write blogs about how she "betrayed them" and other angsty stuff. Which is pretty sad.

I feel that it is well within her right to stop writing anytime she feels like it (unless of course, she is under a contract with the publisher that says otherwise). I mean, suppose I become a great basketball player and gain millions of fans that would be deeply dissapointed if I stopped playing. Do I have to keep playing just to appease the fans? Hell no. The books are hers and she can do what she wants.

Don't get me wrong, I would be very dissapointed if she stopped writing them. But she's only human and we shouldn't come to "expect" things from artists when really, they owe us very little.

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