Grandparents redux (was Re: What am I missing?)

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 97745

<snips> 
Annemehr:
> By the way, there was something JKR said that seemed to contradict
> that last chat on March 4:
> 
> ****************************************************
> SB: I'm going to ask one more. There were a lot of groans when I
said
> we were going to wrap it up, so one more. What happened to Harry's
> grandparents?
> 
> JKR: Um, various interesting things, but again, I'm not going to
share.
> <snip>
> *****************************************************
> 
> Annemehr:
> That's odd, because recently she said their deaths weren't really
> important to the story, didn't she?

Eustace_Scrubb:
What she said at World Book Day was "They're all dead and not
particularly important to the story, although you will find out a
little bit more."

To nitpick she said _they_ aren't important to the story...of course
not, as they're dead and unless there's a lot of timeturning, they
won't be in the story.  Yet this doesn't rule out finding "various
interesting things" about what happened to them...such as how/when/why
they died?  I still have to believe that their deaths will have some
importance although they themselves may not...of all the gaps in our
knowledge this frustrates my muggle logic the most...apparently alive
and in good health when James was an upper level student at Hogwarts,
his parents (and Lily's) are all dead within the next few years
(roughly four, is it?) by the time Harry is orphaned.  This is just
too much of a coincidence for me.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb