What question would you ask JK Rowling?/ How to ask!

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 91546

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "johnbowman19" <jhnbwmn at h...> 
wrote:
> > > Kristen:
> > > I see on the Leaky Cauldron more info on the web chat with JKR 
> on 
> > > March 4.  This is our first real opportunity to get 
information 
> > from 
> > > her since the launch of OOP.  If you could only ask one 
> question, 
> > > what would it be?
> > > 
> I think, more importantly than 'what' is 'how'. I've read every 
interview and article about JK that I could find on the net. More 
than once on all of the chats I could find. When people ask her 
direct questions about ongoing mysteries, even questions she 
considers to be the product of indepth reading, she won't budge. She 
won't even stutter. But, when you ask her something in a vague kind 
of way, she will not answer, of course!, but she does stumble. If 
someone asks her if Snape is evil, she says she's not going to tell 
you that, sorry. But, if you ask her why Quirrel turned out to be 
the baddie in PS, and not Snape....she answers that "I know all 
about Snape, and he wasn't about to put on the turban." I don't have 
a reference, all of the chats/interviews have melted together 
unfortunately. Even if you can't get answers, it's fun to see if 
she's going to slip up. 

So, the things I most want to know, and how I would phrase them?

Were the marauders all in Slytherin? It's a direct question, sure, 
but I'm guessing that she assumes we all think they were in 
Gryffindor. If they weren't, and it's important, and she doesn't 
want to answer, she might sliip up, and say something like, "Why do 
you want to know?" I saw she said that when someone asked her if 
there were any spells that could be done with the eyes alone. What 
they were asking is, what's significant about Harry's eyes? But, she 
slipped up, and gave away that the eyes are important.