Reading by JK Rowling at Radio City - Spoilers Within

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 156419

Alla wrote: 
 
> And I think my friend ( waves at Kathy ) got the same impression.

KathyK:

Oh, hey, that's me!  *waves back at Alla*  

Anne Marie wrote:

> > 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.

 
Alla wrote:
 
> 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. :)
 
KathyK:

I had the same impression of Draco's redemption as Alla did.  I 
believe she brought up the point twice that Harry did not think that 
Draco would have killed Dumbledore if he had an unlimited amount of 
time to carry out the mission.  The way she said this, right along 
with saying that most of her characters (Voldemort the Psychopath 
being an exception, as Alla mentioned) had a chance to be redeemed 
left me with the distinct impression that Draco was a strong 
candidate for redemption--even if she did tell us we'd have to wait 
for Book 7 to see what Draco's future holds.  

And on a note completely unrelated to Draco, I see at the Second 
Reading she reportedly said that there is more to Petunia than meets 
the eye and we'll find out about her in Book 7.   I seem to remember 
her saying that before...and I just went and double-checked.  She 
has indeed used that phrase before, at the Edinburgh Book Festival 
in 2004 when asked about Petunia's possible Squibness:

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm

So, nothing new there.  Too Bad.  I so like to contemplate Dear 
Petunia and what she knows and what will happen to her. Anything new 
would have been swell.  Ah well.  At least she won't be doing any 
magic in Book 7.*  

KathyK, so very glad to have been able to be there for one night, 
but after all the fun she had, was sorry she hadn't bought tickets 
for both nights ;-)

* see http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/rumours_view.cfm?id=37