Random thoughts and speculations after rereading JKR's interview on Leaky and

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Let me put a disclaimer first. This is not a summary or dsicussion 
of the whole interview. I am just talking about  the moments which 
either interested me or made me happy, that is all :-).
By now I am pretty sure everybody knows  where this interview is , 
so I am not even going to put a link.

So, first of all Dumbledore.

Anybody has any ideas why JKR won't answer the question of what 
Dumbledore would see in the Mirror of Erised?

My only guess is because this is something which WILL happen in the 
ending?

What can this be? I want to say Harry without a scar with Ginny and 
kids :-) But this is of course wishful thinking on my part.

Another thing - she said in the last part of the interview that 
Dumbledore's family would be profitable line of inquiry. Any ideas 
why?

If Harry is not the Heir of Gryffindor, maybe Dumbledore still was? 
rmemeber that Fawkes is NOT Hogwarts possession, but Dumbledore's?
Sigh... I want the book about Dumbledore too :-)

Book 7 possible moments.

Hmmm. She confirmed that mirror will show up in book 7. I still want 
Harry to talk to Sirius . :-)

Oh, and Dumbledore's gleam of triumph will be VERY significant in 
book 7. I am still not sure how.

She was silent, I take it we are going back to THAT mysterious room. 

And I guess she as much as confirmed that Peter's life debt will 
play a role AND Ginny does not have a life debt to Harry. Hmmm, it 
IS  very interesting. I wonder why not and why exactly the 
circumstances of James's saving Snape during the infamous Prank is 
like Harry/Peter, not like Harry/Ginny?

Is it because James saved someone whom he truly despised and this 
counts more? Curious, very curious.


Oh, yeah, this brings on another crazy speculation of mine and yes, 
it is about Prank. :-) Sort of.

Look at this quote.

"S: Was James the only one who had romantic feelings for Lily?

JKR: No. [Pause.] She was like Ginny, she was a popular girl.

MA: Snape?

JKR: That is a theory that's been put to me repeatedly. 

ES: What about Lupin?

JKR: I can answer either one.

ES: How about both? One at a time.

JKR: I can't answer, can I, really?

ES: Can you give us any clue, without misleading us [Emerson 
misspoke; he meant "without giving too much away"] --?

JKR: I've never, to my knowledge, lied when posed a question about 
the books. To my knowledge. You can imagine, I've now been asked 
hundreds of questions; it's perfectly possible at some point I 
misspoke or I gave a misleading answer unintentionally, or I may 
have answered truthfully at the time and then changed my mind in a 
subsequent book. That makes me cagey about answering some questions 
in too much detail because I have to have some leeway to get there 
and do it my way, but never on a major plot point. 

Lupin was very fond of Lily, we'll put it like that, but I wouldn't 
want anyone to run around thinking that he competed with James for 
her. She was a popular girl, and that is relevant. But I think 
you've seen that already. She was a bit of a catch."


Right, you ask me how is this relevant to Prank? We more or  or less 
agree that Snape MAY have had feelings for Lily, right?

In this quote JKR says  that Lupin was very fond of Lily and that 
she was a popular girl and that this is relevant, BUT she also says 
that Lupin was not competing with James for Lily.

I mean, he is a nice guy, right, he would not want to hurt his 
friend, right?

Now, I am very fond of speculation  that Snape figured out who Remus 
was before he went to the Shack, but I could never come up with the 
reason why Snape may want to hurt Remus or even kill him.

Jealousy sounds like a great reason to me.



Oh, and I think that when JKR called Snape more culpable than 
Voldemort she could not have referred to hsi teaching abilities for 
a simplere ason that she was making a comparison and Tom never 
taught at Hogwarts :-)


That is it for now.

JMO, obviously,

Alla.