JKR chat

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92090

"entropymail" wrote:
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2. Snape is not a vampire! Yay!
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4. Percy was acting of his own accord in OOP. Wow, that takes a lot of
air out of quite a few Percy theories.

and, finally,

5. A bit surprised about her answer regarding Harry's scar. I was sure
it was a rune!

Carol:
Re point 5: The scar may still be an eihwaz rune. She didn't
specifically answer that question. She only said that the shape wasn't
the most important thing about it--which still leaves room for
protective charm theories and as yet unknown properties for the scar.

For the record, I don't think that Harry's "life force" was switched
with Voldemort's--a protective charm wouldn't do that--but I do think
that some of Tom Riddle's or LV's powers and personality traits
(Parseltongue and anger?) got *added* to the gift for flying
(inherited from his father) and the personality traits we can
associate with his real self, JustHarry, as revealed in SS/PS before
he knows who he really is. He would have been an ordinary wizard child
like Ron or "half and half" Seamus if it weren't for the Godric's
Hollow encounter and (IMO) his mother's protective charm.

I also noted your points 2 and 4 about Snape and Percy, along with
MWPP all being in Gryffindor (so nice to be right on all three
counts!), a new minister of magic coming up (which leaves room for a
lot of speculation about Fudge), Charlie being only two years older
than Percy (huh?), The "two missing Gryffindor girls" (whom she forgot
to return to) indicating that there are really only ten students per
class in Harry's year, more on Snape's backstory coming up (yea!), and
the fansites getting the "one who won't return" correct--IMO has to be
Snape (as perceived by LV at the time of the graveyard scene) and the
coward has to be Karkaroff.

Carol, who wishes that her Mark Evans question had been answered, but
I guess it was too near the end of the 16,000 questions!