Re: This shall be Salman Rushdie´s words (Spoiler????)!?

[krista7]

No: HPFGUIDX 156508

> colebiancardi
> oh SO KEWL!!!   I think JKR was doing her "normal" twisting, but the 
> opinion(theory) is Snape is good.  And she verifies it.  She discards the DD
> is not dead, but stating that she has to be more explicit and spell it
> out(that was his proposal, not opinion)
> 
> 
> Sherry now:
> I read that completely differently.  I think the comments about Rushti being
> correct could refer to several different things

Much as I want JKR to come out and state definitively that Snape is innocent,
I do not see her saying so at all in these comments. What happens is she says
 this: " Your opinion, I would say, is right." So what *opinion* did Salman 
Rushdie offer, and if he offered multiple ones, what is the most logical reference
 in this case?

He offers: a comment/summary of the past books (It has always been plain...
we cannot, or don't, want to believe this). He offers: a theory. (Our theory....
We propose...) He offers: a question (so is Snape good or bad?) And then he 
offers what is an opinion ("It's plain to see, everything follows from this," 
that is, this question of Snape's goodness or badness is key to the
resolution of the story.) This is the most logical point of reference for
 JKR's "your opinion"--"It's plain to see" is placed at the end of his speech,
 a very bold assertion left dangling, making it the most natural jumping-off 
point for JKR's answer, since it was the last thing said. And JKR, 
being classic JKR, sticks to this implied question (is Snape the key? Yes) 
rather than the  question Rushie asked directly (is Snape bad?). She throws
 out the bone that Dumbledore is really dead, but otherwise, she doesn't 
give *anything* away in this answer.

Krista