De-bunking Count Snape

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 125003


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> we don't know enough about Rowling to say that 
> she never gives trick answers. She has said that she won't be 
> "full and frank" in her interviews, that readers like to be 
tricked, 
> and after announcing that everything we read on the website 
> would be true, she used it to make us think that she was still 
> working on the HBP when she had finished it. Fool me twice...

Let's revisit that answer JKR gave on the Snape/vampire matter, 
shall we?

Megan: Is there a link between Snape and vampires?
JK Rowling replies -> Erm... I don't think so.

It is within the realm of the plausible JKR willfully took that 
question to mean "Is there any link between Snape and any vampires" 
and her answer meant "No, Snape has no links to any other vampire."

Notice, if you would, what the question was NOT. ("Is Snape in any 
way a vampire?") More tellingly the answer was NOT "Snape is in no 
way, manner, shape or form any sort of vampire."

[snip]

> So I challenge the debunkers: can you come up with *one* 
> missing bit of information that explains *all* of the above?

I am reminded of Sherlock Holmes (which I strongly urge everyone to 
read) when he said, in _Sign_of_Four_:

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the 
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

-Joe in SoFla