JKR site update SPOILERS

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 158905

Alla:

> LOL. Swooping, huh? 

Ceridwen:
Yup, swooping.  Like sweeping, only more bat-like.  ;)

Alla:
> He was there, am telling you ;) Without a cloak, wanting to get his 
beloved Lily out of there. Yay or yack depending on where you stand :)

Hmmm, I think I recorded this prediction already, oh the joys of 
loudly screaming I was wrong afterwards or laughing loudly if Snape 
tells Harry that he loved his mother.

Ceridwen:
I'll take that yak... er, I'll yack.  No, I'll *gak!*.  Yeah.  *gak!*

How was he there, then?  The book says it was a Tuesday night, as I 
was reminded when I dug around and found out that Hallowe'en in 1981 
was on a Friday.  Would he have been let in on the secret?  If so, by 
who?  If he was in on it, he must have known that Peter Pettigrew was 
the SK, yet in PoA he seems to sincerely believe that Sirius was the 
cause of all this trouble.  I've suggested a note, a la Dumbledore's 
note to Harry in OotP, but no one likes that idea.  I'm a lonely 
voice crying in the wilderness on that one.  Any way you look at it, 
though, Snape or anyone else being at GH would have to have been in 
on the secret.

Unless he somehow followed LV when he went to the general vicinity 
and finally saw the house when the secret died because LV invaded.  
Did LV leave for the Potters' in front of some of his DE?  Since it 
was a Tuesday night, why was Snape there?  If he was at a DE meeting 
in the company of other DEs, how could he have followed LV without 
someone noticing, given that following an Apparating person is even 
possible?  (It looks like it might be possible, since Bellatrix 
followed Narcissa in HBP yet had never apparently been to Spinner's 
End)

Anyway, if Snape starts spouting that he changed sides because of a 
schoolboy crush on someone who married someone else, I'll go and get 
a snack until the page turns to the next one all by itself.  I always 
sneak out at embarrassing moments in movies, I can always start 
sneaking out during embarrassing moments in books.

Alla:
> But seriously I am quite excited by her answer about Regulus. I 
mean, what would be the better opportunity to confirm that he is dead 
than to say - no he is not Regulus, because Regulus is dead.

Ceridwen:
True.  Like the unspoken assumption about GH, she deftly sidestepped 
this issue, too.  No mention of "dead means dead", nothing of the 
sort.  I think she knows exactly what she's doing and is laughing up 
her sleeve at us.

Ceridwen.