JKR's secrets about Snape and Hagrid

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 147530

> La Gatta Lucianese:
> <silliness>No, no, no...all this is post-GH. They're hiding out at 
> Hogwarts, and Lily/Hagrid is going all broody because...well, it
> would explain Hagrid's rather overdeveloped maternal instinct.
> Wouldn't it?  And James is all frustrated because Lily's new look
> doesn't do a thing for him...</silliness>

Richard here:

It is definitely silliness, since both both James and Lily are 
canonically quite dead.  How else would their "shadows" (for lack of 
a better description) have emerged in the priori incantatum effect 
during the duel in the graveyard, GoF?

We really don't know for certain that the secrets reputedly told to 
Rickman and Coltrane were single facts or critical sets of 
information.  For example, if JKR told Rickman why Dumbledore trusts 
him AND WHY HE IS WRONG, or simply that he is wrong (or that he is 
right to trust Snape), it really isn't a single, discrete fact.  In 
fact, I think this would be a very likely pair of closely related 
facts for JKR to tell Rickman.  Depending on precisely what that 
reason is, there might well be several related pieces that would be 
self-evident.  It would certainly also explain why JKR would regard 
the material as secret enough not to share with a director, but only 
with actors she may trust more than, or see as too critical to 
the "noumena" of the Potterverse NOT to tell.

As for Hagrid, "Hagrid is half-giant, and giants are bitterly 
hated," sounds entirely right for the sum total of what she might 
have said to Coltrane.  Still, you never know ... JKR has been known 
to keep the better part of a deck up her sleeve.

Richard