One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> > Elisabet continues:
> >> Note, BTW, how she answered the question about Aberforth and the 
> goats at Carnegie Hall:
> > Q: In the Goblet of Fire Dumbledore said his brother was 
prosecuted
> > for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to 
> laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was 
> practicing on that goat?
> > 
> > JKR: How old are you?
> > 
> > Eight.
> > 
> > JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to 
> keep clean [laughter], curly horns. That's a joke that works on a 
> couple of levels. I really like Aberforth and his goats. But you 
> know Aberforth having this strange fondness for goats if you've 
read 
> book seven, came in really useful to Harry, later on, because a 
> goat, a stag, you know. If you're a stupid Death Eater, what's the 
> difference. So, that is my answer to YOU. 
> (Snip
> > Elisbaet again:
> > With this answer she clearly is saying that there is an innocent
> > reading appropriate for eight year olds ("...that is my answer to
> > YOU") and at the same time, yes, but that she intended more mature
> > readers to interpret it, well, somewhat differently.
> 
> Tonks:
> So Rowlings mind is in the gutter? I knew she was newly married 
when 
> she named Tonks, Nymphadora. I thought, my God, why is she using 
> that word in a children’s book. It was just so obvious where HER 
> mind was. I don’t want to think of Aberforth as a sexual pervert 
who 
> is having sex with goats. For god sakes!!! The publishers, Warner 
> Brothers, and who knows who else, should have put a spell on that 
> woman to shut her up. I read where she says that outing DD was so 
> freeing for her. Heck, lady, you have plently of money, see a 
> therapist if you want to free yourself! Don't use us. I am 
surprised 
> that WB didn't have her sign a contract to keep quiet. I bet they 
> will with the next superstar "children's" book author.
> 
> Tonks_op
>


But of course, they didn't know that JKR's work would make her a 
superstar......

Re: Aberforth:  IT'S A JOKE! 

She doesn't really think that Aberforth is having sex with 
goats..it's TONGUE IN CHEEK.....

And a wonderful tongue in cheek reference in the movie OoP where 
Aberforth is seen with the goats.....

Susan