Things about which I will be 100% wrong

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 132851

Remember back when we were all sitting here (or a bunch of us anyway-
welcome to those who weren't.  I wasn't trying to exclude you) and we 
were waiting for the release of OoP?

Well, back then whenever someone would say "Neville's parents were 
Aurors" I would reply (either onlist or off through gritted teeth) 
that his parents were *not* Aurors.  JKR only said his father was.

I was wrong.

And when people referred to MWPP as "the Marauders" because it was 
the Marauder's Map, I would point out (either onlist of off as I 
ripped out my hair) that it would be the Marauders' Map had they 
called themselves that.

I was wrong.

So now for the things I will be wrong about in HBP:

Ginny and Dean are not dating.  Ginny only said she "chose" Dean when 
Ron said he hoped she'd choose wisely.  Nothing was said about 
whether or not Dean had any say in this, or even any knowledge of 
it.  Although I'm sure he has been told by now. <beg>  One would 
think if he returned her feelings, he'd be sitting there with her, or 
she'd be sitting where ever he was since it would be 2 months before 
they'd see each other again.

Of course, that may be the G/H shipper in me talking.

I will be wrong.

Bill and Fleur are not dating.  Fred and George snigger about how 
Bill is giving Fleur English lessons, but we never see him bring her 
around or talk about her, or even mention her.  He talks about 
Ragnok, but I don't think there are any shipping overtones in that 
conversation. 

No, when Fleur gave him the come hither look in GoF, he was unfazed.  
She told Ron and Harry that she was going to get a job in England to 
improve her English.  Now Bill is teaching her.  Quite frankly, if I 
went to a foreign country to learn the language, and I had the 
ability to turn the average man into a drooling stammerer with his 
tongue waggling drawer-length or lower, I'd choose a language teacher 
who could keep his mind around me.  I'd be looking for diction, 
enunciation, coherence.  All of which are limited at best when one's 
tongue is lolling.

Then again, this may be the Bill/Remus shipper in me talking.

I will be wrong.

Catlady (waves southwestward) touched on something that I had planned 
to bring up.  JKR said Mrs Figg was a squib, but we went on our merry 
way with our polyjuice theories and predicted that she would be the 
next DADA teacher, despite the fact that the ever-delightful Kelley 
pointed out in message #16701 that JKR had said this in an AOL 
interview.  

So now I have to wonder:  Are we missing anything?  Is there a 
forgotten interview that isn't archived that would cause us all to 
smack our heads in disbelief?  

The world may never know; but if it did, I'd be wrong.

Ginger, who also argued once upon a time that there was no way on 
God's Green Earth that Darth Vader was Luke's father.  I was wrong.