revelations from the Edinburgh Festival

[Diane Klopp]

No: HPFGUIDX 110104

At the Edinburgh Festival, JKRowling has reveled the following:

    * Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman in the Hog's Head
    * Dumbledore's patronus is a phoenix
    * Grawp will be more controllable in the sixth book
    * We will see a bit more of Rita Skeeter
    * There will be a new character called McLagan
    * Harry does NOT have a godmother

Also, Petunia is NOT a squib, she is definately muggle-born.

She gave two questions for us to think about:

1. Why didn't Voldemort die when he tried to kill Harry? JK said that
in the end of book four, Voldemort had said he had taken various steps
against dying, but we should be wondering exactly what he did.

2. Why didn't Dumbledore try to kill Voldemort in that scene at the
end of book five?

Dumbledore gave a kind of reason to Voldemort but it's not the real
answer, and that Dumbledore knows something more.

JK said if we are wondering about the overall plot, we should be
concentrating on those two questions.

The full transcript of the Q&A session will be available on JK's
official website soon.

Diane