JKR quotes - "Canonicity" of Interviews? (was: Re: Snape's Destiny/JKR quotes)

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No: HPFGUIDX 105140

> "K":
> Feel free to email me the Lupin interviews! I haven't made it that 
> far yet. 
Stefanie: 
I'll definitely email them to you...there's not nearly as much as 
there is on Snape, but it's interesting nonetheless

> I am an interview nut because there are so many false rumors going 
> around concerning what JKR has said. If it can't be found in one 
of 
> her interviews I don't consider it canon.

Stefanie: 
::A RESOUNDING "HERE HERE"!:: ('swhy I tend to run away from "house 
switching arguments!)


> "K":
> 
> But there was only one question and that was about love. The host 
> makes a statement about redemption and JKR makes a point to go 
back 
> and address the original question.
> 
> *I promise you, whoever asked that question* 
> 
> I don't think she would be so stunned that someone figured out a 
> possible redemptive pattern about Snape. Yet I do believe she 
would 
> find it hard to believe that anyone could think of Snape and love. 
> She has made him such an unpleasant person. Who in the world would 
> ever catch on that we have a nice little love story awaiting us 
with 
> Snape. :-) I mean, he does have those twins....

Stefanie:
LOL...but of course!
I'm looking for an audio version of this interview, since there have 
been many references to how plain the inflection is. Actually, in 
the situation that it does refer to the love question, it makes more 
sense in my elaborate très-Slytherin!Snape theories
> 
 
> Stefanie:
> 
> > Another quote that had me staring at the screen with one eyebrow 
> > raised! "deeply horrible"? "DEEPLY"? Not a light word to use. 
Now 
> >I do believe, as JKR has stated, that Snape is a complex 
> > character...One really can't argue that at all, but as to the 
> >nature of his complexity? Is it really all that benign?
> 
> "K":
> 
> I really wish she wouldn't have said that. ;-) Deeply horrible. 
What 
> more can she say? She still hasn't called him evil so I'm hanging 
> onto the hope that he isn't. Not that I think she would tell us at 
> this point if he were.

Stefanie:
I see what you mean! She's masterfully written this character. It's 
hard to believe that he's completely loyal to the Order, it's hard 
to believe that he's loyal to the DEs and LV, he's...well...a riddle 
wrapped in an enigma! Like I said, though, I was pretty much slack-
jawed when I read this! Even though I'm an avid interview-thumper (? 
Xo) ) sometimes I wonder how far we're supposed to take them.

I'm assured that she knows these characters intimately enough to be 
able to answer questions consistantly...but then again, there's the 
classic case of the "maths" problem in regards to the ages of the 
Weasley boys. Do we take these with a grain of salt? I'm erring on 
the side of the validity of the interviews, but in the back of my 
mind, my jury's still hung.