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

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 156570


> 
> Neri:
> Your logic problem is as follows: JKR said that Rushdie's argument is
> true. So if she understood the Rushdie's argument as "Snape is good
> *and* Dumbledore isn't dead", she said it's true, and then she said
> Dumbledore *is* dead. Contradiction!!!
> 
> I'm not sure what Rushdie meant exactly, but I'm pretty sure JKR
> understood it as "*if* Snape is good, *then* Dumbledore can't be
> dead". Otherwise she's contradicting herself.
>  
> 
> > wynnleaf
> > Yes, I'll agree that JKR was saying DD is dead.  But if she heard and
> > understood Rushdie's comments, she was not validating a theory that
> > Snape's goodness depends on DD's being alive.
> > 
> 
> Neri:
> Then what was she validating?
> 
wynnleaf
As I read it, Rushdie was setting up a series of statements akin -- as
far as construction goes -- to the following:

It is winter, and there is snow on the ground.

The two are certainly related, but clearly either can be true without
the other being true.  If on the other hand I interpret this statement
to be "If it is winter, then there is snow on the ground," I have set
up an if/then statement in which there *must* always be snow in
winter.  But even then we are not bound to consider it winter, just
because snow is on the ground.  That is, we can't say, "If snow is on
the ground, it is winter."  But with the first statement, "It is
winter, and there is snow on the ground," I could easily affirm the
first part and deny the second, or affirm the second and deny the
first.  "It is winter, but snow is not on the ground," or vice versa.

Similarly, Rushdie can basically say, "Snape is good, and DD is
alive." Even thought the two are related, they are not dependent on
each other. JKR can affirm the opinion that Snape is good -- even that
he and DD worked together on a plan -- yet deny that DD is alive.  

However, I personally don't think she was affirming anything about
Snape's loyalties.  I can't believe she'd give so much away.  I prefer
to think her comment about Rushdie's opinion being correct was related
to Rushdie's last comment that the tower events hinge on Snape's loyalty.

wynnleaf