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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