Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

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Neri snipped:

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.

Snow:

Or if Snape is good and bad
and Just Out for Himself! (Confusing but 
doable, I have an entire theory on this one
with canon(s)) 
I've been on both sides of the fence about Snape and this truly is 
the only way it works. 

Neri snipped again:

I also noticed that Rushdie very wisely blamed this whole theory on
his 9 years old son rather than on himself <g>.

> Hickengruendler:
> There are some things I found interesting, most notably this one 
about 
> Dumbledore, which sounded IMO a bit different in the reports of the 
> visitors.
> 
> JKR said, that she couldn't answer the question, if we will see him 
in 
> action again, since the answer is in book 7, but that we shouldn't 
> expect him to do a Gandalf. That does not sound, as if a short time 
> return (like the one from James and Lily during the climax of GoF) 
is 
> out of question. Yes, Dumble's dead, but the answer to the question 
if 
> we will see him in action again is in book 7. I'm betting on more 
than 
> just Portrait!Dumbledore in HP 7.

Neri:
My bet is on a pensieve memory of Dumbledore. In fact, probably more
than one. We will need *lots* of explanations.

Snow:

Yep, agreed
we need to know about the defeat of Grindlewald for 
instance, many different roads she could travel with this statement. 
Dumbledore would be an action figure in this circumstance but not in 
action. 

I, personally, would like to pursue the question that was asked about 
what question had she never been asked before that should have been 
and JK hesitated with a reply that she couldn't answer because it 
would give away the ultimate ending. And there were several questions 
that could have been asked, not just one. This is, in my opinion, the 
road we need to travel. What question has `she' never been asked that 
would give away the ending? Now there is something to ponder! 
I'm going to take a stab at it and say the founders. Salazar is the 
main character other than Godric, so naturally they are dismissed if 
you're a mystery type enthusiast. I like the fact that each of the 
head of house would have been from a different background. I wrote 
about this many moons ago, but I think it's time to reconsider that: 
Slytherin was pureblood, Gryffindore was half, Ravenclaw was squid 
and Hufflepuff was muggleborn. 

In any case, I think that we need to start thinking far outside the 
realm in which we have been ever since `she' has reiterated in this 
last contact that `she' still does not feel that anyone can guess the 
ending. 


This is the most exciting news I've heard!

Snow