Who dies?/Evil Snape

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 154433


> 
> Pippin:
> Snape has the biggest library we've seen outside Hogwarts. He's
> also a recognized expert on Dark Magic. If anyone knows about
> how the Vow works, he does.

Potioncat:
Someone, sometime, suggested the books would follow along with the 
challenges from SS/PS. That would have HBP as the Potions Challenge. 
That challenge was a logic puzzle--created by Snape. I think the UV, 
as taken by Snape--is an exercise in logic as well. That's why there 
are holes written into it and it's how Snape expected to get out of 
it. (IMHO)
> 
> 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > Pippin, we have to agree to disagree here. JKR IS Christie 
admirer, 
> > but she is NOT Christie, no?
> > 
> > So, I would not expect her works to be so similar to Christie, 
but 
> > that is IMO of course.

Pippin:
> Are you saying that JKR manifestly likes twists and likes Christie, 
> but her work is not so similar to Christie's that it has 
> Christie-ish twists? I guess we will have to disagree on that.


Potioncat:
Drat! I can't find it. In the interview that JKR did with the Girl 
Guides (UK or just Scotland?) she comented that she enjoyed pulling 
the wool over her readers' eyes. Her favorite book was one that Jane 
Austen wrote "because" it had a major plot twist. JKR was stating the 
two facts together, "I like pulling the wool over my readers' eyes 
and my favorite book is...because..." (as close as memory permits.)

While it may not be possible to trick everyone of us, I think she's 
going to give it a good try. She's going to be putting in twists and 
turns.