[HPforGrownups] JKR has Mystery Writer-related to Tower Theories-long!

[Kim]

No: HPFGUIDX 149603

In reply to Magpie's post on the mysteries in the books.  

Magpie: 
A lot of us have obviously been spending a lot of time pointing to moments in canon and asking for a sign that certain things are going on, if they are and it seems like many people don't find it hard to believe that key moments are meant to be imagined or assumed to be covered up.  This 
always surprises me because in my experience it seems like JKR *always* writes those things in.  

Kim:
I agree.  I don't think that we'll figure out anything from book 7 by looking for hidden mysteries in 1 through 6.  

Magpie:    
I don't think you can really solve all of the mysteries at the 
center of the HP books....You can't do these things, because you don't have the information.  
We don't even know a Vanishing Cabinet works with its pair as a 
portal, and it's not like this is real world knowledge, so how could 
we guess it?  Had we heard Montague's story beforehand we could, but 
we didn't, so we can't.

Kim:
JKR is so clever, so original, that we can't pull these books apart and assume we can guess at what happens next.  We learn hints along the way so that we aren't completely shocked...

Magpie:  
Scabbers is just an ordinary rat for two books.  
However, in the book where Peter's story will be revealed, Scabbers 
suddenly gets a plot that, as usual, is not what it seems but has 
beats we can follow later.  It's not like he's just been sleeping on 
Ron's shoulder the whole book.  Suddenly he's got the authorial 
finger pointing at him.  

Kim:
But there's no way that we can anticipate what will happen from what we've read.  I'll admit, it's great fun reading all these posts, I really enjoy myself reading all the theories put forth.  Though I also admit I growl at anyone who so maligns Lupin's character as to make him evil.  He's my hero.  But I think that when the last book comes out we'll all find that we are way off track.  

I agree with Magpie post and add that we don't live in Harry's world.  Even for him, things like the tent at the Quidditch World Cup are astonishing.  Until we've walked a mile in JKRs moccasins (or spent a wild half hour in her imagination) we can't even guess what she's going to come up with next.

But I beg of you all to please keep on trying because your posts are a wonderful substitute to keep us fulfilled until the real thing comes along.  Just do me one favor, please?  Leave Lupin alone?  Thanks.  :-)

Kim

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