Room for Debate (ws Re: J.K. Rowling Comments )

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 164731

Carol teases:
> 
> Or what was Snape's relationship with the other Slytherins at
> Hogwarts? ;-)

va32h sniffs:

Yes, but that's *important*. 

Carol says: 

> Now, granted, I'd like to know Snape's Boggart and Patronus simply
> because JKR has said they'd reveal too much about him for her to
> answer that question,

va32h:

Well those are important too. They will probably be important to our 
understanding of Snape. (please, please, Jo,  do not let them be 
anything that could be remotely connected to Lily)


Carol here:
 but I was thinking more of unanswered questions
> that would lead to discussions, for example, what's going on between
> Snape and Lupin in the scene where Snape summons Lupin to his office
> to talk about the piece of parchment he confiscated from Harry?
> Clearly, they both know something they're concealing from Harry,
> including who the "manufacturers" of the map were, but it isn't 
clear whether snape recognizes the names or only suspects that Lupin 
was one of them based on the insults (four people who clearly know 
who Snape is insulting him, and one of them suspiciously named 
Moony?) I don't think she'll answer a question like that in DH 
(though she might answer it on her website some day), but until and 
unless she does,it's open to argument and speculation.

va32h wonders:

Both of those explanations are fine. Is that such a crucial detail 
that it is actually worth arguing about? I'm not trying to be 
sarcastic, really. I've listened to some of Jo's interviews where it 
really seems that she's surprised at the question, because the 
thought never occurred to her. I think this would be one of those 
questions. 

I really don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to know 
*more*, I just don't understand why people can't be content to just 
fill in the blanks for themselves on stuff that is really, ultimately 
unimportant. Those missing Gryffindor girls - who cares? If they have 
to have names, call them Ann and Betty and be done with it. Or, just 
decide that there are only three girls in Harry's year. Those girls 
are never mentioned, because they don't matter. 

What is the Fat Lady's backstory? No idea. Maybe it would be fun to 
invent one - surely just as fun as working out ways that Harry could 
be an accidental horcrux. 


va32h, who is too busy trying not to think about how Dementors breed 
to worry how they dig a grave.