Excusing Snape of any responsibility ( was Re: Nitwit? - Remus John Lupin)

[Jen Reese]

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wynnleaf:
> She implied strongly that we'd learn more about the werewolf prank,
> and that obviously involves Snape.

Jen:  I have high hopes for this one tempered by disappointment in 
the past when my ideas about something JKR said weren't the same as 
what she meant.  Like this comment from the World Book Day chat(2004):

Lucy: what happened to Wormtail?
JK Rowling replies -> You'll find out in book six.

Technically that's true, we did find out Wormtail was staying with 
Snape and it seemed a little fishy.  I just thought there would be 
more to it!  

Here's a comment about the Prank, from the same chat:

Kyla: What made Sirius decide to send Snape to the Willow?

JK Rowling replies -> Because Sirius loathed Snape (and the feeling 
was entirely mutual). You'll find out more about this in due course.

Was she saying she would tell more about their loathing, the reason 
why Sirius sent Snape or more about the Prank itself?  She might 
replay the entire night because we haven't seen how James turned from 
an 'arrogant berk' into a family man, Order member and someone who 
died a heroic death.  But she might also be thinking her second-hand 
stories about James over the first 5 books tell that story already.  
And as for the Prank itself, is the key piece of missing information 
what the person asked, what made Sirius do it?  If so, then she's 
saying we'll see more about *why* they loathed each other so much (a 
girl, Regulus, something with respective families??).
 
If the life debt played a role in Snape's turn back to DD then I'd 
guess we're going to see James stopping Snape and how that got set 
up.  

wynnleaf: 
> Another thing I believe is important. JKR has stated on a few
> occasions that she rewrote the first chapter of PS/SS about 10-15
> times. She re-wrote it over and over because each time she felt she
> was revealing too much. She has said that if she put all of those
> chapters together the "whole plot" would be revealed.
> 
> But what did she mean by the "whole plot?" Obviously she didn't mean
> the whole story of Harry growing up, going to Hogwarts, learning to
> be a wizard, multiple confrontations with Voldemort and other bad
> guys.  What she seems to have meant was the whole of what occurred 
> prior to placing Harry at the Dursleys. Yet JKR called that 
> the "whole plot."

Jen: On this particular point JKR could have been referring to the 
Horcruxes and the Harry/LV final ending.  I took her comment to mean 
she was worried about giving too much away about the night at 
Godric's Hollow, what kept Harry from being killed and LV dying, and 
what 'bit' entered Harry that night--a soul piece, powers, what??  
Any of that information would have made it possible to figure out 
after book 1 the the stuff being speculated about after book 6. 

Jen