Reading by JK Rowling at Radio City - Spoilers Within/One piece of canon

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> Magpie:
> If that's an evasive answer, I don't know how the woman ever manages 
> to say anything!  The answer reads as pretty direct to me, with your 
> re-interpretation being exactly the opposite of what she said.  Why 
> would there need to be a specific mention in canon that every Potion 
> requires a wand?  She just said every Potion did require a wand to 
> answer the question: no, Muggles can't make Potions.   


Alla:

Eh, yes, absolutely that answer was very direct. I also attended the 
yesterday evening ( SO much fun that was) and while I cannot guarantee 
that I remember questions and answers word by word, the question was 
asked ( as far as I remmeber) - can Muggles brew the Potions, the 
answer was **No** and then she started to say that Potions require more 
than brewing that you need a wand at some point, meaning as far as I 
understood that brewer's magic goes into Potions.

In general, she answered very few questions and IMO have out **sero**, 
**zilch**, absolutely nothing.

But I just want to comment on one more question, which I got exactly 
the opposite impression than the list member writing about it.

And I think my friend ( waves at Kathy ) got the same impression.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemflynn" <annemflynn at ...> 
wrote:
<SNIP>
> Another asked about whether or not she felt her characters had any 
> redeemable qualities, i.e. Draco Malfoy (to which, Jo had to shake 
> her head over why girls were so infatuated with Draco). The question 
> was worded really well, too, the girl had made reference to Snape 
> being on the side of good in it, to which, Jo's expression didn't 
> change (Dammit!). Well, Jo said that while she believed everybody had 
> redeemable qualities in them, for the sake of the story, Draco was 
> not one of them. And she reminded us what the terms of his assignment 
> were and what the consequences would be, should he not be able to 
> carry it out. And then told us to draw our own conclusions from that.
<SNIP>


Alla:

Welcome to the world of posting :) I may have misheard her answer, but 
I totally did not get the impression that the redemption for the Draco 
is out the question.

What I remember her answering was that indeed for some of the 
characters redemption is not possible, the example she cited was 
Voldemort ( I don't remember her saying that this door is closed for 
Draco), she said that if we take away the wand from Voldemort we can 
call him psychopath ( but at least I am glad she IMO closed the door on 
redeemable Voldie), then she indeed repeated that Draco would not have 
killed Dumbledore and what that means for Draco's future, you just have 
to wait and see, hehe.

I thought that the door for his redemption was left rather wide open, 
personally. :)


Julie:
What is that one piece of canon? I'm curious. You know I am
pretty convinced that Snape is DDM, but if I can come up with
an intepretation for that bit of canon that would paint Snape
as a bastard (even if I don't buy it), I'll post it :-)

Alla:

LOL, I did not realise that would be interesting, hehe, since I got 
asked off list too, but would you like to guess first?

It is easy, but it is not Snape saving Harry's life in PS/SS. To me it 
goes to Snape's character that he may actually care for somebody and 
for no obvious reasons.

JMO,

Alla