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Of course, that's different from the political theater, where meaning is deliberately buried in what is written, or actually says the opposite of what one does.
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And isn't that the point of all politicians? To twist the words and its meanings to suit their own selfish purposes.
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A friend of mine, a scholar involved in Restoration poetry, only half-jokingly pointed out to me once that we probably know exactly what was meant and what was implied in every published line by Edmund Spenser and Alexander Pope than we do that of any highly successful modern author.
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Thats a very good point. We can look at the thread which spawned this one. Rowling has used simple English to beguile and bewitch her fans. For one, I surely didn't guess that Dumbledore was gay from reading any of her books.
Maybe its better that an author is dead. At least a dead person cannot shed a new and mysterious light on his work which would perhaps end up creating more questions than answered questions.
Dead authors have no more drive to stow conspiracy and raise the popularity of their works of art. In other words, they have lost the very human need to make more money.