The graveyard at Hogwarts

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 138943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> Ginger:
>  So if there is a graveyard there, who's buried in 
> > it?  Surely the founders would count as heads.  If it isn't done 
> for 
> > heads, then it must not be for teachers too.  Students would be 
> > buried with family, which leaves....House Elves?  
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> I've read it, but I can't find it. There is a summary over at Quick 
> Quotes, but I can't find the actual quote. But, just as HBP was 
> coming/had come out someone asked JKR about the graveyard. She said 
> it was a fandom myth.
> 
> My take is that Cuaron may have discussed putting in a graveyard at 
> Hogwarts and misunderstood her reasons for not wanting one. It's his 
> quote that got all the speculation started. I'm assuming that a 
> graveyard in the PoA movie would hve been too confusing with the 
> canon GoF graveyard. 
> 
> Besides, they had already added too much and cut too much...just my 
> opinion of course.

Barmaid now:

The graveyard stuff comes from the PoA DVD disk 2 documentary Creating
the Vision. This is an interview with BOTH Alfonso Cuarón and JKR. 
They are on screen together.  Because this is an interview with JKR it
seems to be "canon" as defined by this board.  

In this part of the interview they are discussing where the trio will
be when they view the "execution" of Buckbeak.  Alfonso is talking; Jo
is looking at him while he speaks and sometimes nodding.  He says he
wanted it to be a graveyard – but she had said no no, there can't be a
graveyard there – he explained that he had asked her why and that she
had said there was a graveyard somewhere else around the castle and it
would come into play later.  She is nodding as he ends this explanation.

I was very excited when I saw this and I really thought there would be
a graveyard in HBP and that it would be a key to many interesting
things.  Alas, there was not.  There where however two funerals and
"burials."  

Two possibilities come to mind.  One is that there really is not a
graveyard – that Alfonso's words in the interview are not precisely
Jo's and she is agreeing with the spirit of what he says not his exact
words.  In this view what she is really saying is that there can not
be a graveyard overlooking Hagrid's hut because we are going to have a
tomb and a funeral on the lake front – which would not really make
sense if there were a graveyard elsewhere – if people had come to
believe that there was a graveyard above Hagrid's hut because of their
being one there in the movie.

The other idea that comes to mind is that there is a graveyard which
will come into play in book 7.  HBP ends with DD's funeral on the lake
front – there really is nothing that says that this is the permanent
location for DD's tomb.