Quote Quest (was Re: The graveyard at Hogwarts)

[jlv230]

No: HPFGUIDX 139045

The 'rumour' about the graveyard arose because this exchange is 
found on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD Extras (in the presence of JKR):

Alfonso Cuaron: 'We needed a place where the kids could see the 
execution of Buckbeak, and we thought about having a graveyard. And 
we consulted Jo about it and she said "No, the graveyard is not 
there," and I said "Why?" And then she gave me the whole explanation 
of why the graveyard cannot be there, because it's in a different 
place of the castle. Because it's going to play...and she knows her 
thing, she knows exactly what's going to happen later.'

I suppose the real reason that Cuaron couldn't have the graveyard he 
wanted is because no-one had been laid to rest at Hogwarts before 
(as it says in HBP), not that the graveyard was 'somewhere else'. 
Perhaps JKR didn't give Cuaron the whole story and forgot about it. 
Or Cuaron was deliberately muddling so no-one would accuse him of 
giving secrets away. A whole graveyard mythology springs up, and JKR 
has no idea where from! She did say in the Owen Jones ITV interview 
that she was confused about it and how it is made up!

This is also not the first time JKR has found comments she made come 
back and puzzle her - remember Icicle? That was a girl's 'name' in a 
webchat and JKR commented on it and said she would put it in her 
book - obviously she forgot about it straight away and then couldn't 
undertand why so many people insisted there would be a character 
called Icicle!

JLV xx (Who is glad no-one records and combs over eveything she says 
all the time!)