New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 100259

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> Here is a tidbit from an interview at BBC's Newround. Alfonso 
Cuaron
> relates a conversation he had with JKRowling.
> 
> --- Quoted in Part - See link below---
> I give you an example: There's a scene where Malfoy wants to see
> Buckbeak being executed. ... ... I said 'Let's put a graveyard 
there'.
> 
> She says: 'No, you can't have a graveyard there'. And I'm 
like, 'Why?'
> She says: 'Oh because the graveyard is near this other wing of the
> castle and it's going to play an important part in number six 
because
> such and such and such.' 
> 
> --- End Quote ---
> 
> I'm stumped! I can't see how or why a graveyard would be at 
Hogwarts,
> and can't see how to work it into the plot, and I'm usually pretty
> good at doing that.
> 
> The only thing that comes to me is that maybe Harry's parents are
> buried there. Or maybe, the location is only incidental; something
> will happen in the graveyard that is not directly related to the
> graveyard itself.
> 
> Also, I think we need to consider that Cuaron was probably
> paraphrasing and perhaps generalizing a bit. So, I'm not sure we 
can
> trust what he said as an absolute statement of fact... more like a
> broad somewhat generalized fact. 
> 
> Full interview-
> 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3758000/3758101.stm
> 
> Anyone care to speculate?
> 
> bboy_mn

Katrina now:

So far the pattern for the books has placed each of Harry's Final 
Confrontations with LV either underground or in a place associated 
with death.  

If there is a graveyard at Hogwarts, then it would provide a 
convenient place for another HP-LV confrontation on school grounds 
and stay within the current pattern.

Maybe this will be the location of the Final Showdown in book 7?