[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR has updated her site today -- WEBSITE SPOILER!

[doliesl at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 158249

>  Maria wrote:
> >
> > .. JKR updated her site today ... she (JKR)
> answered, though belatedly, a question which was asked by one of the
> audience in her NY reading. The question was supposed to be
> like, "What is the question you have never been asked that you ought
> to have been asked?"
> >
> > Her answer can be found in her Extra Stuff section of her website,
> and clicking Miscellaneous.
> >
> > S
> > P
> > O
> > I
> > L
> > E
> > R
> >
> > S
> > P
> > A
> > C
> > E
> >
> > The answer is "Why did Dumbledore have James' invisibility cloak at
> the time of James' death, given that Dumbledore could make himself
> invisible without a cloak?"
> >
> > She also stated that "there IS a significant -- even crucial --
> answer."


I only remember in the book that it was mentioned that DD kept James' cloak, but never specified that Dumbledore actually have James' invisibility cloak *at the time of James' death*, did JKR slip-up?

And the way she worded the second part "given that Dumbledore could make himself invisible without a cloak?", is she slipping that someone who can't make himself invisible would need/use the cloak that night? Which also suggested that YES someone else was really there in the house that night. The usual suspect is Snape, and anything that deals with Snape is story-significant and crucial (for me anyway). I like Kemper's suggestion.

D.