JKR's interviews about Snape and in general.
dumbledore11214
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 15 03:33:56 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 140188
> zgirnius:
<snip>
> The bottom
> line is that the picture is not going to be complete until Book 7
is
> out anyway. I will actually be very interested to hear anything
she
> has to say about her characters and her created world at that
time,
> and can't imagine that I would regard any such comments as
anything
> *but* canon. Until that time, though, I think that in her
interviews
> she would tend to want to "protect" her work, and our unspoiled
> enjoyment of it. If there are secrets she does not want us to
guess,
> I would think she would try to steer us away from them in
interview
> comments.
Alla:
Absolutely, BUT that is what she is doing, no? When someone asks
her a question which she does not want to answer, she says that she
cannot answer that question.
I can give you many, many examples of her doing just that - refusing
to answer the question, which will give away the secret.
Connection between Harry and Vodlemort untill recently was being
such example.
Now, when it is just one book left, I guess she does not mind giving
our some little hints - like when she said that Dumbledore's family
would be important line of inquiry, that she cannot talk about two -
ways mirror, etc.
But earlier she simply flat out refused to answer questions,which
would give away importnat plot points.
I am not saying that the interviews would be hundred percent fool
proof, but I do think that she knows quite well where she is going
with Snape and when she does not refuse to answer about his
character, I guess, I honestly do not understand how is it possible
to ignore it completely?
JMO,
Alla
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