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Anyway, there are enough plot problems in the later Harry Potter books (as we have discussed at great length) as well as senseless, heartless deaths (Hedwig! Dobby! Why?!) that everyone around Rowling had clearly grown similarly terrified of questioning her process. Only her own eventual good sense stopped her from killing off one of her crucial main characters. She's gotten so overconfident that she can't even be bothered to remember basic details about her own universe when she's talking shit: When asked by a fan how many students were at Hogwarts, she shrugged and went, "Eh, 'bout a thousand, probs," even though there is tons of evidence that there's no way the school can handle that many students -- evidence that she herself wrote.

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"Oh, I don't read them when I finish; I just watch the movies. Reading's for nerds."

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But as for Lucas, what she says goes, no matter how mouth-shittingly backwards it is, and it's bound to start fucking up the story. We might think we're safe, because the series is over, but even if she never pulls a special edition re-release on us, she's bound to keep returning again and again to the Potterverse, because ...