Black and white and read all over.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 116863


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Ennui looms. But there is a further step that can be taken with 
the conclusions that have been drawn - construct theories based 
on them, see how they hold up under scrutiny by members. If 
there  is no canon conflict they may even be accurate predictions. 
But for worthwhile theories to be posited the canon must provide 
sufficient information. It's possible it may not do so. Which is 
bloody annoying.Which brings us to:-
> 
> Spoon-feeding - isn't this what JKR is doing on her web-site?
> "Oh, they need extra clues, guidance, whatever on this subject 
or that individual. I'll drop this nugget in there for them."

Pippin:
I fail to understand why people assume Jo can't be as sneaky 
when she writes in the first person as she can in the third. Now, I 
don't know that she is, but I do know she's implied there are 
questions that can't be answered   "I can't tell you that" without 
giving too much away.  Some of the nuggets may  be fool's gold.

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http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/cookarama/bbcintjul00.html

What's the weirdest thing a child's ever asked you at an event or 
signing? 

The most startling things are when children ask me questions 
which reveal they're following my thought processes a lot more 
closely than I would have guessed. There was a boy who asked 
me in San Francisco [before Book 3 appeared], where did 
Scabbers come from, what's his history? For people who don't 
know, Scabbers is a rat who turns out not to be a rat at all; and I 
found it quite spooky that he'd homed in on that, because I'd 
known from the first book that he wasn't a rat. I think children are 
reading the books 12 times, and they're really starting to know 
the way my mind works. 
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You'll notice she doesn't say how she dealt with the question 
<g>.

I try to understand what's coming by deciphering the clues, and if 
that leads to an interesting plot twist, so be it...but I know the 
more detailed the predictions get, the more likely they are to be 
proved wrong. 

The plot twists should extend the theme -- it's not like there's the 
mechanics of the plot, and then there's what the books mean. 
Every time a sympathetic character is revealed as a bad guy, 
we're shown that affection can distort one's judgment as much 
as hatred. 

As to spoon feeding:
  People were already speculating that Petunia had information 
from the wizarding world before Jo answered the question about 
Remember My Last, so I'm not sure why anyone would think she 
was making up for missing foreshadowing. IMO, we're simply 
getting information in advance of Book Six -- shameless hype, 
but so what?

Pippin