New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

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No: HPFGUIDX 99713

--- 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 ---
>

CRobo:

This is different than the first version I read.  Somewhere.  
Forgive me, I don't have the link, but it was no doubt off The Leaky 
Cauldron.  At any rate, the first version I read led me to believe 
that JKR didn't want a graveyard in POA because of the major scene 
of GOF.

My 2 cents.
CRobo.