My fav Q and A from todays chat w/ JKR

[nkafkafi]

No: HPFGUIDX 92111

> > Debbie: What will Ron's job be when he leaves school?
> > JK Rowling replies -> Well, assuming he lives to leave school... 
> I'm 
> > not going to tell you :)
> > 
> > hmmmmmmm so will Ron die? I will definitely shed tears over this 
> one 
> > if it occurs
> 
> Geoff:
> Yes but hasn't JKR made similar comments re Harry before now?

Neri:
Yes, lots of them. I recently went methodically through all the 
interviews in the Quick Quotes Quill site, and of course didn't find 
the clues I was looking for, but I noticed some obvious patterns. JKR 
has canned answers for those annoying questions that always repeat. 
Whenever she is asked if she is going to keep writing Harry after he 
leaves Hogwarts, she *always* answers "so you are so sure he is going 
to live...". This is where all the doom prophecies regarding Harry's 
death are coming from. In this chat she just generalized this pattern 
to include Ron also. This way she gets too birds in one shot: she 
shuts up the annoying questioner and raises the suspense level for 
her readers. 

Neri