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

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 156525

> Chrissi:
>  This shall be Salman Rushdie´s words.
> 
> Rushdie: It has always been made plain that Snape might be an
> unlikable fellow, but he was essentially one of the good guys.
> (Massive cheering) Dumbledore himself has always vouched for him. 
Now
> (unintelligible) Snape is a villain and Dumbledore's killed. We
> cannot, or don't, want to believe this. (Cheering and laughter). Our
> theory is that Snape is in fact still a good guy. We propose that
> Dumbledore can't really be dead. That this in fact is a ruse, 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. So, is Snape good or bad? (Massive cheering). It's plain to 
see,
> everything follows from this. (Cheering)
> 
> Jo: Your opinion, I would say, is right. However, I see I am going 
to
> have to be more explicit and say Dumbledore is definitely dead.
>


Neri:
I read it like this: Rushdie's opinion is that if Snape is good, then 
what happened on the tower was a ruse and Dumbledore can't really be 
dead. JKR says his opinion is right (that is, that Snape being good 
would imply that Dumbledore is alive) but unfortunately, Dumbledore 
is definitely dead. 

JKR obviously isn't saying that Rushdie's *theory* is right. 
Rushdie's theory the way he presented it includes Dumbledore being 
alive, and JKR nixed that most explicitly.

So the only question is, does Rushdie's opinion also imply that if 
Dumbledore *isn't* alive, then Snape must be bad? I'd say the way he 
presented it certainly suggests so, but he didn't state it 
explicitly, and therefore the DDM!Snapers are still left, as always, 
with some vague shade of hope. 

BTW, several months ago Faith dictated to me a list of predictions 
that was saved on my computer for posting before Book 7 is out. I now 
regret that I didn't post it already. Faith's first prediction in 
this list was "Dumbledore is definitely dead".

Neri