Would JKR lie to protect her story?

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 99830

 "snufflesnbeakie" 
> <
> > I was reviewing interviews with JKR earlier today, and 
> wondered, if  someone asked her a question ~ that gave her no 
> choice ~ would she  lie to keep the story from being revealed?<
> 
> Pippin:
> I don't know if lying would protect the story. False information 
> would kill the suspense just as much as true information, and 
> would ruin the story as well. But she has lied to avoid 
> disappointing a young reader:
> 
> ***
>> 
> I don't think  JKR needs to lie to get readers on the wrong track. 
> Given the fans' tendency to build massive edifices of speculation 
> on the slightest foundation or no foundation at all,  Rowling can 
> encourage false rumors by openly refusing to deny them.
>> 
> It's heartwarming that people care enough about them to want 
> them not to get hurt, but at the same time I have the absolute 
> right to do what I like to my story and characters. I'm not going 
to 
> write to order. I've planned the whole story, and I've always 
> known who was going to die and who was going to come 
> through unscathed, and I'm not going to deviate from that. 
> *****
> 
> JKR enjoys the theorizing, and she knows it would spoil the 
> game if people caught on that she was lying...so I think in the 
> main she doesn't. But like Dumbledore talking to Fudge, she's 
> quite willing for us to draw the wrong conclusions. 
> 

Just wanted to say that I agree totally with you Pippin.  I haven't 
been in this group for very long, but ever since, I have read some of 
the most amazing and interesting theories on every single aspect of 
the HP stories.  I never would have thought that Snape (or Sirius for 
that matter) was a Vamp, or ever looked for clues to prove one way or 
another, or thought that my beloved Remus was ESE! or truly held out 
hope that my beloved Sirius would return from the dead, or even more 
interesting, that he was _secretly aided_ in his escape... I could go 
on and on.  

That's why this group really rocks, but I doubt JKR would have to do 
much actual bald-faced lying to most of us here.  IMHO, if she came 
to this group and read some of the posts, I think she would have a 
hard time controlling her shock.  Plus, if she ever did want to 
change her stories (6 & 7) this would be an excellent source for 
ideas.  I mean, everyone posts such interesting theories that I have 
been thoroughly entertained since the first day that I joined this 
group, but for me it's rather like Hollywood taking an excellent book 
and making it into a movie.  The movie's rarely as good as the book 
for me because of the simple fact that no one's imagination, 
Speilburg or no, equals mine.  The day Garfield (the comic strip) 
went on the air and I heard his voice, I was honestly dismayed.  He 
sounded nothing like he was supposed to sound.  I grew accustomed to 
it, and ended up liking the show, just as I will enjoy the last two 
HP books, but Hollywood's idea of what GArfield should sound like and 
MY idea of what he should sound like were two totally different 
things. 

Plus, just look at the way everyone, here and in the movie biz, runs 
with an idea.  That trailer from POA "I recognized you 
immediately"... WOW!  Never in a million years would I have thought 
that Remus was in love with Lily.  Snivellus, sure, expecting it, but 
Lupin?!?!  Even the director of POA has a different vision of what's 
important in the Potter universe.  There's some interview, I cannot 
find the link, though most of you will know what I'm talking about, 
but JKR says that she  likes the director's take on his other movies, 
and while he didn't stick so strictly with the book, she feels he 
really captured the _spirit_, meaning, IMO, that Cuaron's vision was 
slightly different than hers, which is, of course, inevitable!

My long-winded point is that she wouldn't have to actually lie.  Like 
DD, all she'd have to do is show us that little twinkle in her eye, 
smile and shrug, or perhaps say, "You'll see..." 

Susan (teilani) who feels incredibly chatty today.