My dream- a chance for NEW CANON!

[erinellii]

About a week ago, I had a dream.  It was a very detailed and 
continuous dream, which is unusual for me.  And it was about Harry 
Potter, also unusual for me..

In my dream, my best friend announced out of the blue that her mother 
knew someone in the government who had gotten us tickets to the next 
HP reading J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter, was doing in the 
United States.

We went, and after the actual reading (which was rather skipped over 
in the dream), I and a group of other people got to meet JKR and were 
given the opportunity to ask questions.  I asked (thinking of my 
Evill!Bill theory) if there were any more names that were anagrams in 
the series.  

JKR said yes.

I asked if we would ever see Florence from the fourth book again.

JKR said yes.

At this point my dream remembrance gets kind of blurry.  I was in a 
crowd of people, reporters and little kids and adults like me who had 
gotten special passes backstage.  I was deliriously happy because I'd 
gotten answers to two questions that had been plaguing HPfGU for so 
long.  I thought about asking if Bill would be the spy in the Order, 
but then was scared she'd laugh and say no, and my chance to have two 
years of fun with my original theory would be gone.  And then 
thought, well, if it's right (or even sounded plausible to her) she 
wouldn't answer anyway, just say, "I can't tell you that, sorry".  
And then I thought-- btw, I did way more clear-headed thinking and 
reasoning here than I do in most of my dreams, which was one reason I 
knew this dream was important-- I thought, if Evil!Bill IS right, and 
I guess it, she'll probably be slightly angry.  Isn't there an 
interview where she says she wouldn't like it if someone guessed the 
answer?  So I decided not to ask.

Well, I was still in the dream-crowd, and had gotten 2 questions 
answered, and knew that was more than most of the crowd had managed, 
but was desperate to talk to JKR one more time.  Just as an innocuous 
enough question popped into my head, JKR announced that she had to go 
now, she had a flight to catch early the next morning.  As she was 
trying to make her way from the room, I screamed at her, "Ms. 
Rowling! (pronouncing it correctly)  Please, Ms. Rowling, is it 
possible that Arthur Weasley was a victim of the Imperius curse 
during the first war with Voldemort?!"

She turned and looked at me.  And smiled.  And said "Hmmm."

I couldn't tell if the answer was yes and she was trying to decide 
whether or not to reveal it, or if she just thought that was a really 
good idea and was briefly contemplating ways of working it into the 
story.  But that "hmmm" was all she said.  After that, she turned and 
walked away.

The dream skipped forward several hours, and I was returning to the 
hotel room, and my best friends mom said "I'm surprised you're not at 
the airport right now."  

I asked why, and she explained that J.K. Rowling had been impressed 
with the last question I asked her and had invited me to a tour she 
was giving of her home in London, England this weekend.  (Yes, I know 
she really lives in Scotland, and would never do this, but my dream-
self didn't.)

My best friend hadn't told me because she thought I couldn't afford a 
plane ticket.  I know she would never do this to me in RL, but in the 
dream it was a horrible betrayal which hurt a whole lot.   I rushed 
to the airport and made it in time.  

The dream skipped to JKR's house, which was sort of like an ancient 
Roman one, with huge arches and marble everywhere.  Again, I was part 
of a crowd following JKR around as she took us on a tour.  I tried to 
ask her a couple more questions, but she was too busy trying to lead 
the tour, so I asked if I could write down stuff the fans wanted to 
know and if she would maybe try to answer them in future books, and 
she gave her consent.

Well, I didn't have any paper with me, but I did have a permanent 
marker and this big hand-sewn quilt or afghan that I had been 
planning to give JKR as a gift.  So the whole rest of the dream I was 
walking around with the tour trying to write questions on the afghan 
in such a way that they sort of followed its pattern and didn't 
totally deface it.  I've forgotton most of them, but do remember the 
ones I wrote as the tour wound to an end in a huge indoor pool room 
set up to look like the Roman baths.  I had to scribble frantically 
to write "How old are Mr.and Mrs. Weasley and Bill and Charlie?" 
and "Where did Lupin live at the end of Goblet of Fire?

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And that was  the end of the salient part of the dream.  It was a 
pretty cool dream, so I remembered it, but didn't think it meant 
anything until just 2 days ago, when I was looking at the Leaky 
cauldron for news I'd missed lately, and came upon a piece of news 
that said JKR would be participating in a web chat on March 4th.

Did everyone catch that?

JKR WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN A WEB CHAT ON MARCH 4TH!!!!!!!!!

Do you guys see how exciting this is?  This is our chance!  Our 
chance to get mysteries solved that have been bugging some of us for 
years.  HPfGU as a group has got to be on that chat!  

We will be the ones who aren't asking stupid questions like "Is it 
true that you wrote the first book on napkins in a local cafe? 
or "How's your new baby?"

We can ask stuff like whether the pensieve is totally objective, 
whether Mark Evans will be important in the next book, the ages of 
the elder Weasleys, whether Hagrid was the assistant to Og the former 
gamekeeper for a while before he took over, all the good stuff.

We have got to be on that chat in force so that at least some of us 
will be able to get through!  I've been trying to find out what needs 
to be done, but there's not much about how to participate up yet. 

I thought, in the meantime, maybe we could think of some more good 
questions to ask.  The thing is, if we ask stuff like "Is Dumbledore 
going to die?" or "Will Harry and Ginny hook up?" she won't answer, 
and we need to keep that in mind.  We should take this as an 
opportunity to ask the little questions that have been niggling us, 
not the big burning ones that are gonna get answered in the end 
anyway.

So, who wants to start? I'll be keeping track of these, so hopefully 
by March we'll have a big long list of good questions that will 
clarify the way the WW works for us.

Erin