New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 99690

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> Here is a tidbit from an interview at BBC's Newround. Alfonso Cuaron
> relates a conversation he had with JKRowling.
> 
> --- Quoted in Part - See link below---
> I give you an example: There's a scene where Malfoy wants to see
> Buckbeak being executed. ... ... I said 'Let's put a graveyard 
there'.
> 
> She says: 'No, you can't have a graveyard there'. And I'm 
like, 'Why?'
> She says: 'Oh because the graveyard is near this other wing of the
> castle and it's going to play an important part in number six 
because
> such and such and such.' 
> 
> --- End Quote ---
> 
> I'm stumped! I can't see how or why a graveyard would be at 
Hogwarts,
> and can't see how to work it into the plot, and I'm usually pretty
> good at doing that.
> 
> The only thing that comes to me is that maybe Harry's parents are
> buried there. Or maybe, the location is only incidental; something
> will happen in the graveyard that is not directly related to the
> graveyard itself.
> 
> Also, I think we need to consider that Cuaron was probably
> paraphrasing and perhaps generalizing a bit. So, I'm not sure we can
> trust what he said as an absolute statement of fact... more like a
> broad somewhat generalized fact. 

Marianne:

Well, in response to your supposition (and the comments made by 
others responding to this), why would it make a difference at this 
point in the story whether we saw a graveyard or not?  If I did see 
one in the PoA film, what would occur to me is to think that this was 
simply a bit of visual foreshadowing that we would see a very 
important graveyard scene in GoF (even though it would be a totally 
different graveyard.)  So, why is the location so crucial?  Is its 
proximity to a particular point in Hogwarts a clue?

And, how big is this graveyard?  You'd think that if it was of any 
substantial size, that Harry would have stumbled across it sometime 
over the past 5 years.  So maybe it is very small, and access to it 
is somehow limited or restricted.  That would explain why Harry and 
Co. have never found or mentioned it.  And, should James and Lily be 
buried there, then I would assume there is something about whatever 
is on their tombstones that we can't yet know about.  If not, if this 
is a perfectly ordinary graveyard that contains James and Lily, and 
there is no other importance to it than that, then it would make no 
sense that DD hadn't bothered to mention this little fact to Harry.

Marianne