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

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 156553

wynnleaf:
 
> > >To consider that to be true is to fall 
> > > for a very common fallacy, the Latin name of which I 
> > > can't recall at the moment, but the basic construction 
> > > is: If A then B, does NOT mean the same as If B then A.
 
> > houyhnhnm:

> > I don't know the Latin name either. "Converting a conditional" 
> > is what it is called in English.
 
> Geoff:
> I think you are referring  to a non-sequitur? (= "it does not 
follow")

houyhnhnm:

"If Dumbledore and Snape were working together, then Dumbledore can't 
really be dead"  is the non-sequitur. Turning it around to say "If 
Dumbledore is dead, then he and Snape weren't working together" would 
be converting the conditional. But if the report by the fan on Harry 
Potter's Page is correct, that's not what Rushdie said anyway.

As a Snapist, much as I'd like to believe Rowling confirmed that Snape 
is on the good side, I don't think she gave anything away about Snape.

Dumbledore is definitely dead (I'd considered the possibility that DD 
was still alive; I hadn't pinned all my hopes on it.)  She was pretty 
cagey about the when and how, though.  All that circumlocution about 
the character that dies at the end of the book. And then this:

Q: Recently in an interview, you stated that 2 major characters would 
die. Are you including Dumbledore in that or are these 2 characters in 
addition to Dumbledore? (paraphrased)

JK: When faced with questions like this I remember a quote from the 
author Germaine Greer: `Every writer has to have a chip of ice in 
their heart
.' I think you may have just ruined my career. I really 
can't answer that question as it would give away too much plot. But 
let me just say that you shouldn't expect Dumbledore to do a Gandalf.
http://tinyurl.co.uk/0x5o

I still think something about DD's death scene on the Tower will turn 
out as a big surprise.  And I still think Snape is on the good side, 
but not because of anything Rowling said at Radio City Music Hall.