[HPforGrownups] Re: Red herrings

[Carolin Mönkemeyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 80280

> > I keep hearing about JKR's use of red herrings, and I'm wondering
> if
> > anyone would be willing to tell me if she's actually admitted
> > outright to using them, or if we've just deduced their existence
> over
> > the years?  I'd be really interested to read any interview that
> > refers to her use of red herrings if there are any out there.  I
> have
> > tried searching for clues in the posts on this website, as well as
> on
> > the Quick Quotes site, and the HP Lexicon site, but haven't found
> > anything, really.  Is this because I'm looking for something that
> > doesn't necessarily exist?
> >
> > Thanks to anyone that can help!
> > ~shwanalynn
>
>
> June 2003
>
> "JEREMY PAXMAN: But do you find the whole secrecy issue, the need
> for secrecy, a bit ridiculous?
> JK ROWLING: No.
> JEREMY PAXMAN: Why not?
> JK ROWLING: No not at all. Well, a lot of it comes from me.
> JEREMY PAXMAN: Really?
> JK ROWLING: Yeah definitely. I mean, of course one could be cynical,
> and I'm sure you would be disposed to be so and say it was a
> marketing ploy, but I don't want the kids to know what's coming.
> Because that's part of the excitement of the story, and having - you
> know - sweated blood to create all my red herrings and lay all my
> clues.... to me it's not a ...this is my ....this is my....I was
> going to say this is my life, it's not my life, but it is a very
> important part of my life."
>
> I found this interview on a BBC site.  There used to be a link on
> the Leaky (quotes), but it isn't working right now.
>
> Anyway, thar ya be.
>
> Toad
>
Me:
I would even go so far to say that the first red herring (if I understand
their meaning right...) was given in the first chaper of book one when
Hagrid mentions Sirius (motorbike!)... why would he meet him at the
destroyed house of the Potters if not to see if he can do something ... and
if not he was a close mate of them...

Yours Finchen