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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 135223

hickengruendler wrote:

> > And yet what has JKR ever told us that's been shown to be wrong 
or even deliberately misleading?... 

> "[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.


Actually, I'm not at all sure that was deliberately misleading when 
taken in context.  I think that came up against the background of 
discussions about whether Regulus was, in fact, Stubby Boardman.  
The question then was referring to whether we would be hearing about 
(or it actually FROM?) Regulus alive and kicking.  Her answer about 
him being dead and pretty quiet was essentially a straight answer to 
the question she was being asked, which was about Regulus being 
alive.

It's true that we all took that to mean that Regulus had no part to 
play in the story, but I'm not at all sure that, in context, that's 
what JKR intended.  And I'm altogether sure that if the question had 
been "Will we learn any more about Regulus?" that she would have 
answered differently.


Lupinlore