Ambiguous JKR (Re: SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shipping Controversy)

[Tara]

No: HPFGUIDX 102198

> anasazi_pr wrote:
>
> This sort of reminds me about JKR's answer to every question 
> regarding Harry's future: she always says "If he lives"... Of course, 
> I don't believe for a minute that Harry will die <snip>. But 
> JKR's answer is a deliberate reminder that NOTHING in her books can 
> be taken for granted. Maybe that's the source of her ambiguousness 
> relating to the shipping subject... maybe she doesn't want H/Hr or 
> R/Hr to take their ship for granted until she's ready to reveal what 
> it is.



I agree that "nothing can be taken for granted."  As I mentioned in my
prior message, Jo plants information among the readers for her own
purposes.  I believe she repeats that remark about Harry's possible
death to keep us all a little off balance, just the way she revealed
the upcoming death in OotP.  If we could predict with absolute
certainty what would be coming in the next two books, it would take a
lot of the fun out of the thing, so she tries to spread red herrings
among the fandom, whether it's about anyone's particular life
expectancy or romantic future.  (If she kills off any of the trio, it
would be a real downer and would cast a shadow over the whole series.)

After all the books have been published and analyzed, Jo might be more
direct in her responses to lingering questions.  Personally, I'm
hoping she'll write some kind of Potter encyclopedia explaining all
the back-stories and other details for which we clamor.

Tara