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No: HPFGUIDX 19927

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Schlobin at a... wrote:
> 
> No, it was at a reading that JKR did in Ann Arbor, Michigan just
> last week at Earth Wisdom, a local bookstore...several have reported 
> sighting her there.
> 
> She said that there was no way in hell that Harry and Hermione would 
> ever become involved, that Remus Lupin and Sirius Black had been 
> lovers at Hogwarts, and that Crookshanks would play a major role in 
> the Order of the Phoenix.

Hunh??  Is this trustworthy?  What does "there was no way in hell"
modify?  Part 1 of the sentence or all three parts?

In other words, does your sentence mean:

1. there was no way in hell that Harry and Hermione would ever
   become involved,
2. Remus Lupin and Sirius Black had been lovers at Hogwarts,
3. Crookshanks would play a major role in the Order of the Phoenix.

or does it mean:

1. there was no way in hell that Harry and Hermione would ever
     become involved,
2. there was no way in hell that Remus Lupin and Sirius Black had
     been lovers at Hogwarts,
3. there was no way in hell that Crookshanks would play a major role
     in the Order of the Phoenix.


The ambiguity has me lost, but what you've written sounds like the
former.  If that's so, then I can believe #3 (Crookshanks).  I find
#2 (Lupin/Black) plausible but really unexpected, out of left field.
Yet, it's the first revelation (H/H) that throws me most.  In fact,
excluding the possibility of an H/H ship would be a major letdown for
a lot of readers.  If I were in her place, I wouldn't let that kind
of info slip out until book #6 had been published, at the earliest.

Of course, if she did say that Lupin/Black had been lovers (vs.
saying that there was no way in hell that they had been lovers),
then there are some serious tidal changes in shipping possibilities
for future books.  Oy vey.

....Craig, too confused and up too late