Unsentimental JKR (was re: Snape Culpable and the Three-part Interview)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 135207

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> > Betsy Hp:
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > And I agree with Magda's over all point.  Why on earth would JKR 
> > give away the answer to her books?  That's another reason I'm 
> > dismissive of her interviews (especially with regards to characters 
> > like Snape and Draco) as theory foundations.  Because the final 
> > destiny for Draco and especially Snape is far too important for JKR 
> > to tells us about in an interview.
> > 
> 
> And yet what has JKR ever told us that's been shown to be wrong or 
even 
> deliberately misleading?   

Hickengruendler:

"[Regulus Black] is dead, so he is pretty quiet these days." (The 
question was, if we would hear about him. It's from the World Book Day 
Chat in March 2004). Obviously this is the truth and she didn't lie to 
us. But after what we learned in HBP, and considering that JKR as good 
as confirmed that R.A.B. is Regulus, it certainly can be 
called "deliberatly misleading", in a way, that we all assumed that 
regulus did not have a role to play in the overall storyarc.