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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 156515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doliesl at ..." <doliesl at ...> 
wrote:

> 
> The keypoint of this CORRECT (JKR said so) theory is this:
> "Our theory is that Snape is in fact still a good guy. 
> *Something* is cooked up between Dumbledore and Snape to put 
Voldemort off his guard. 
> Harry then will have more friends than he knows when he and 
Voldemort do face." 
> 

Well, she didn't say Rushdie's THEORY (and he called it a theory) 
was correct.  She said his OPINION was correct.

Now, what opinion could she be referring to?  Any of a number of 
things, I suppose.  But I tend to think that the opinion she was 
referring to was the very last statement Rushdie made -- i.e. "Is 
Snape good or bad?  Everything depends on this."

In other words, she was saying, "Your opinion is correct.  
Everything does hinge on whether Snape is good or bad.  But to make 
the record perfectly clear, Dumbledore really is most definitely and 
irrevocably and completely and absolutely and certifiably and I-Have-
Said-It DEAD."

That would be the most consistent with the types of statements she 
has made before, and the most consistent with her own self-interest 
and the fact that no one thinks she's a total fool (which she would 
have to be if she revealed the answer to that particular question a 
year before the book is due out).


Lupinlore, who thinks Snape as ESE is unbelievable, as DDM is 
incredibly cheesey, as OFH the best writing but unlikely to be the 
way JKR goes, and who really doesn't care all that much as long as 
JKR deals appropriately with his abuse of Harry and Neville  -- oh, 
and who thinks that DD pretty much comes out as incompetent under 
ESE, DDM, and OFH scenarios, but for different reasons in each case.