Script from JKR's reading

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 156814

>Neri
>Firstly, he [Rushdie] says: "Our theory is that Snape is in fact still  a 
good
guy, *from which it follows that* Dumbledore can't really be dead"  (I
stress the difference from the first transcript). It is obvious  that
Dumbledore being alive, in Rushdie's theory, follows from Snape  being
good. It is not an AND statement "Snape is good AND Dumbledore  can't
be dead". It is not even a list of things that are not  necessarily
connected: "1) Snape is good, 2) Dumbledore can't be dead,  3)...". It
is clearly "IF Snape is good THEN Dumbledore can't be  dead".

>Secondly, when Rushdie repeats the words "follows from" he  says: "is
Snape good or bad? *In our opinion* everything follows from it  (I
stress again the difference from the previous transcript).  Rushdie's
words "in our opinion" are important here because JKR's answers  here
"well, Salman, your opinion, I would say, is right". It is  obvious
that by "your opinion" JKR was meaning Rushdie's "In our  opinion
everything follows from this". IOW it was precisely the "follows  from"
part that JKR was validating.

>So as I wrote before, Rushdie  was basically saying "IF Snape is good
THEN it follows that Dumbledore can't  be dead", and JKR was basically
answering "this statement is correct but  Dumbledore *is* dead". If we
treat this as a logical argument then the  unavoidable conclusion is
that Snape can't be good. The only wiggle room I  see here for
Good!Snape is if JKR wasn't treating this as an absolutely  logical
statement or if her logic was faulty. 

Nikkalmati
I can't agree with this analysis of the respective statements.  If "A  is 
true, then B is not true."
>From this statement you cannot extract "If B is true, A is not true."
It is still possible  to say "B is true and A is also true."  
(Somebody else will have to fill in the technical terms; it has been way  too 
long for me).
 
I also believe that JKR was agreeing that everything follows from whether  SS 
is good or bad.  I believe this statement is prospective as in  "everything 
that comes later follows from whether SS is good or bad"  not " what already 
happened on the Tower follows from whether  SS is good or bad."  But with JKR, 
who knows?   
Nikkalmati


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