My dream- a chance for NEW CANON!

[davewitley]

> > Annemehr:
> > > who actually does not like question #9(Mark Evans) and would 
> rather just find out by reading the next book
> 
> Erin:
> Aw, jeez, Annemehr, would you really?  I tried to purposely leave 
it 
> vague both so we'd have a chance of her answering it and so as not 
to 
> spoil the fun.  You, know, "will we see Mark Evans in the next 
book" 
> as opposed to "is Mark a relative of Lily's" or "will Mark, who 
was 
> ten, be starting at Hogwarts next year?"

Interesting question.  I suspect that if the answer to the Evans 
question (will we meet him in a future book?) is 'yes' then JKR may 
well feel that the question is best left unanswered, because 'yes' 
is almost certainly then a clue.

If the answer is 'no', then she may feel it's OK to answer, but that 
leads to the situation where fans can deduce that 'I'm not telling 
you' means 'yes', when many questions of this type are being asked.  
JKR is IMO smart enough to realise this, and since the way to deal 
with it is to say 'I'm not telling you' whatever the actual answer 
is, that's what I think we'd get.

My question is

"Did Stan Shunpike go to Hogwarts?"

So, what type of question do people prefer?  Ones that anticipate 
later books, or ones that try to discover things likely to remain 
outside the books?

David, who thinks HPFGU members have a bat in hell's chance of 
asking, let alone getting answers to, these questions in the chat