Harry Potter and Narrative’s Numberless Worlds
Joel Christensen is one of my favorite people on this planet, and I am incredibly lucky and privileged to know him and learn from him. His words here about Harry Potter and the relationship between author, text, and reader resonate deeply within me, and I appreciate the personal perspective he lends to the discussion of the topic at hand. As far as my personal opinion regarding JK Rowling is concerned, the books and the fandom around them and all of the great things that fans have created can stand on their own, and don’t need to be defined by JKR and her opinions. She may have created the original text, but most of its meaning exists in what the world has done with it since then.
