Why doesn't J.K. Rowling sell the rights to the Harry Potter Series to another Author?

Question

Instead of ending the series?

Answer 1

It's not time to assess that question yet. Let her have her completed set for a few years, and then if someone wants to pay well for the rights to the characters, and she believes they will do a good job (some of the better fannish writers, for example), she would certainly be within her rights to sell them the copyright privilege to start a new series. Not continue this one, but start a new one.

After all, once the characters we know are out of school, the choices are to follow the characters or stay with someone in the school. I suppose if one or more gets invited to teach, or something, that would work. But that's a whole new series.

Or someone could follow one or more of the characters into adulthood. Harry, obviously, and Ron and Hermione, who I think will marry. Harry, hopefully, will marry Ginny. And perhaps Neville and Luna Lovegood?

Answer 2

SHE conceived of the idea for the book and the characters, and it is very difficult for an author to see others butcher or go off in a different direction with characters that one has "given birth to" (in a literary sense) pretty much like seeing someone abusing one's own children. You'd have to be an artist and see someone changing details of your drawing or painting to understand, or maybe someone take your story and change things around where it may no longer represent YOU... I don't think she should. I'm glad that she doesn't either.

The story will probably end with record sales because of the popularity the books and the characters still enjoy, and she will be very happy (not for the monetary success but) for the literary success and that her characters will end with a high note, rather than with dwindling popularity.

Answer 3

Why, would she do that,??She doesn't need the money, Harry Potter is hers, no one else could write it like she does. Someone else would just screw up ,the entire story,there is always a chance that this is not the end, maybe Harry,will become a professor,at Hogwarts,you never know what a writer will do until they've done it. Maybe Dumbledor,will come back,it's possible,maybe snape, just put a spell on him to make him appear dead, Dumbledor kept telling everyone he trusted Snape with his life, there's lots of ways she can carry on the series

Answer 4

For a starter, because those books and videos will continue to sell for many more years. Plus, this is her creative works. By retaining the rights, she controls the future integrity of the series. A new writer might take the series in a direction harmful to the whole.

Answer 5

Because she doesn't want to lose the Integrity of her stories to the interpretation of another author or the publishers that might take it over. She also wants to end the series on a high note to preserve the memory of her characters for future generations to enjoy. Many classic fiction tales would not have reached the status they have achieved if they had gone on and on. Let a good thing finish and go back later to enjoy it all over again.

Answer 6

So that the other author would end the series? Why would she do that? There's only one book left now.

Answer 7

She's been writing Harry Potter for 16 years and had it planned out from the beginning. Why would she want someone else carrying on a story she has spent so much of her life creating? Especially since they will never write it as well as her and they would probably write things that she doesn't agree with.

Answer 8

If one among those declare had ever been made, it could have been extensive information. It wasn't. to boot which, i do no longer think of that's even achievable lose possession of psychological assets (enormously IPs that don't yet exist in a tangible variety, as JK wrote the series after her divorce) throughout a divorce.

Answer 9

To quote her in her own authorized biography, "...what mattered was that I had written a book I was proud of". SHE LOVES HER BOOKS! She loves writing! She can't tear herself away from Harry, Ron, Hermione, Voldemort, Scrimgeour! Writing is her world, in which she can create anybody or anything she likes.
To sell the rights of her book would be to sell her soul.

Answer 10

That would be like asking a mother to sell her child so someone else could continue to take care of him. I do think it would be nice of her to open things up for the past, and allow other writers to create the Marauder era. I've read some fantastic Marauder-based fanfictions that fit straight into canon.