JKR Live: OOP : Snape, Thestrals, etc

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A quick summary from those who watched the event live: (I missed 
it :-( )

As for what she said about Snape and the DADA position- Dumbledore 
believed that the DADA job would bring out "the worst" in snape, and 
said "lets start with potions and see how you do" exactly quoted by 
JK. interesting, because she also said she couldn't reveal the full 
meaning, as the 6th and 7th book will have in depth info on this most 
likely.

Thesterals-she finally explains: she said that the death of CD had to 
sink in b/f Harry saw them & that she couldn't well write them in at 
the end of GoF. I suppose this answers the question of Harry seeing 
his mother's death, too

She said one of the reasons the bk is so long is that she had to put 
certain things in that play a part in bks 6 & 7. We probably won't be 
meeting HG's parents, she really, realy likes Lupin, talks about the 
death, realy likes Luna who she describes as the anti-Hermoine, she's 
really glad we hate Umbridge b/c she loathes her. 

Until we have a transcript..........Arya