JKR stands for Just Kidding, Really

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Pippin:

I've claimed that Jo sometimes tries to fool us in her dealings
with the fans, for example, by confirming that Wormtail killed
Cedric when, as I maintain, there are two characters using that
name. I've been challenged to find an example of Jo deliberately
misleading her fans, and now we have it.
Her Christmas card states that she was just kidding when she
said on her website that HBP was racing her third child into the
world -- and she admits in her latest news that the book has
been complete for a while (she said it was a weighty secret that
it was finished.)

So, she does fool us, and I stand by my theories: there are two
Wormtails, one of whom is ESE!Lupin, and Snape, if he does not
have links to vampires now, had them formerly.

Pippin
whose comprehensive ESE!Lupin essay is racing the Accio
deadline

Snow:

I believe I found another example of JKR using her Dumbledore(ish) 
ways—he doesn't lie
he evades the truth. The following quote however, 
is a very similar circumstance to the one we just encountered on 
JKR's web site: 


Gilson, Nancy. "A Fantastic Success for J.K. Rowling," Columbus 
Dispatch (Ohio), October 28, 1999

On her frenzied American tour, British author J.K. Rowling was 
signing copies of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when a small 
boy eagerly approached her.
His words tumbled out in one breath:

"I know what the title of your next book is. I know what it is. It's 
Harry Potter and the Quidditch World Cup!"

Rowling, a slight woman with strawberry-blond hair, paused to recall 
the episode, then spoke again in her crisp British accent.

"Every other time a kid has said this to me, I've said, 'No, that's a 
rumor; that's not the title.' But he was so pleased with himself that 
he thought he knew it, and he was only about 5, so I said: 'That's 
right. You're absolutely right.' And I thought, 'He'll deal with it 
later.' "


The child new some substance of the book but it was not the actual 
title, therefore, JKR allowed the boy to believe the partial truth. 
Very clever, really! If any part of what is asked her, in the way in 
which it is asked, can be a partial truth, she can answer evasively. 

Snow