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

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 102252

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tara" <townsend3 at e...> wrote:
> > 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. 


I definitely think it's a way for her to keep us all off balance, but 
she also seems to enjoy having all of us scouring her books for 
information that we apparently missed.  Paraphrasing now, but re: 
Sirius' motorcycle... She says she suspects some fans already have a 
good idea where it is.  For the life of me, I cannot figure out how 
anyone would know that based on the information we have.  I may not 
be a genius, but I'm no dimwit either.  Just the same as the shipping 
comment.  If it were that obvious that it's definitely going to be 
R/H rather than H/H, there wouldn't be any discussion, now would 
there?
Susan :-)