The undergraduate thesis discusses the author's right to interfere in the completed work, based on the author J. K. Rowling and her intervention in the canon of the Harry Potter saga. I will focus on her retroactive progressiveness, with which she attempts to bring the novels closer to the contemporary view of racial and sexual representation in literature. In dealing with the problem, I will rely on the essay "Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes, which is based on the assumption that the author's life and their purpose for writing a body of work is irrelevant, that the author loses ownership of it after its completion and that the interpretation of the text derives from the text itself, regardless of the author's intent when writing it. I will point out the problems with the death of the author in the digital age in relation to the personal brand of contemporary authors and describe Rowling's changing attitude towards fan fiction. Finally, I will give examples of retroactive interference in the works and world of Harry Potter and the reception they received.
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