Nicholas Flamel and book 6 snippet

[Ravenclaw Bookworm]

No: HPFGUIDX 128465

Snapesangel:
4)A reason external to the narrative itself - there doesn't seem
much point JK "throwing us a bone" if the character is an entirely
new one that not even the most subtle analysis of the book will
enable one to pick up on in advance. 

Bookworm:
IMO, the seems to be just what she does.  My example: at the 
Edinburgh Book Festival (http://www.quick-quote-
quill.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm) JKR says:

<<At the end of Goblet of Fire he [Voldemort] says that one or more 
of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be 
wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die—I will put
it that way. I don't think that it is guessable. It may
be—someone could guess it—but you should be asking yourself
that question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy.
I'd better stop there or I will really incriminate myself. >>

If it isn't 'guessable' why would she ask us?  Just to tease us and 
keep us guessing ;-)

Ravenclaw Bookworm