[HPforGrownups] Re: Idle musings on Book Six

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No: HPFGUIDX 27763

In a message dated Tue, 16 Oct 2001  2:35:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Penny & Bryce <pennylin at swbell.net> writes:

> > Just for grins, I pulled out Book Magazine's article (May/June 2000). 
> Here's what they said (all based on JKR interviews & chats):
> 

mega snip

> ** The first truly evil female character makes her debut
> 

This could be true.  We just may not kow yet that she is evil (if she is Fleur or Madame).  Or it could be Rita Skeeter, who is certainly awful and may indeed be evil.


> 
> ** There will be "a number of deaths, including that of one character 
> readers have grown to love" (okay, so we grew to know Cedric better over 
> the course of GoF, but most everyone assumed the death would be someone 
> we *already* knew ... and GoF hardly features a "number" of deaths)
> 

Agreed...if she was referring to GoF, she has more trouble counting than I had previously imagined.

> ** Another Weasley, Ron's cousin, appears (false b/c JKR deleted this 
> aspect of GoF)

Or, if female, SHE could have been the truly evil critter.

> ** We learn why Voldemort is who he is (huh?  Did we?)

No, but we do learn a bit more of his history.  And it's nasty.

> 
> ** The book's ending will be very frightening indeed
> 

This was right on!

> 
> Back to the original question though: I think JKR is deliberately cagey, 
> and she words things in such a way that they can be subject to more than 
> one interpretation.  I don't think she gives things away very easily, 
> and very little of what she says is straight-forward factual information 
> (such as the World Cup teams).
> 
Penny, I agree completely.  I know that JKR has the whole thing outlined, but it is painfully obvious in her interviews that she doesn't have the entire story written yet, so has not made the difficult decisions about who must go because of space constraints and who will fill in the plot holes of those characters she cuts.  It's sort of interesting seeing that evolution, though, isn't it?

Diane in Philly