JKR stands for Just Kidding, Really

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No: HPFGUIDX 120596


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> I've claimed that Jo sometimes tries to fool us in her dealings
> with the fans <snip>
> 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.)

> Snow:
> 
> I believe I found another example of JKR using her Dumbledore(ish) 
> ways—he doesn't lie
he evades the truth. 

Entropy:

So true, so true! I've maintained for  a long time now that Sirius'
death was faked. There are *so* many clues (Janus Thickey, headless
hats, Luna's "they always come back", etc.) that lead me to believe
that, not only will we see Sirius again, but that he will be alive and
well. 

But JKR seems to have really muddied things up when she said things
like no one comes back once they are "properly dead" (is Sirius
properly dead??). And don't even get me started on the story of  her
sobbing as she wrote Sirius' death scene!  I've got it in my head
(quite stubbornly, I admit) that  that story of her writing the scene
and then discussing it with her husband was a lovely way of  putting
the certainty of Sirius' death into our hearts, and making it as real
for us as it is for Harry.  But, to paraphrase Luna, we just have to
have faith that things will turn out alright, especially when they
seem to be at their bleakest.

None of this is to say, of course, that I actually *want* JKR to tell
us the absolute and un-fudged truth. What fun would that be? I can
envision JKR, after all has been said and done, and the last book has
been written, saying something to the effect of "Erm, sorry, but I
knew you'd forgive me a bit of fudging once you knew the whole story.
It was important that the reader truly believe ...such and such...." 
And, of course, we will forgive her!