Trelawney Award, part II

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 177230

> Bart:
> In DH, what was the major event(s) that made you say, "I didn't see 
THAT one coming!" 
> 
> To give my example:
> 
> Snape being friends with Lily BEFORE Hogwarts. It certainly made a 
lot of sense in 20/20 hindsight, but I did not see that one coming at 
all. 


Alla:

Hmmm, this is very hard to answer, actually. I mean, certainly I did 
not see how many of the events will play out plot wise, but I saw the 
things itself to come true, if that makes sense.

Like what you just said about Lily and Snape being friends before 
Hogwarts, as I said I saw LOLLIPOPS after HBP, absolutely did, and 
whether they were being friends before Hogwarts or not was just one 
of the possibilities, which I did not think much of, you know?

You specifically want to name those events that were shock for us, 
right?

It is hard indeed, I mean even my biggest failed prediction about 
Snape's loyalties was not shock for me. As I mentioned before, not 
because I expected it or predicted it, but because we talked about it 
so often, and I still was keeping it in my mind that even if I do not 
want or expect it, it may come true. Does that make sense?

I guess I should blame you guys for not many things that shocked me 
at the end  :), seems like we discussed every possibility, and the 
surprises that just seemed minor points in the developments of the 
theories.

Even if I did not see them, somebody did, and I remembered it.

Hmmm, how about we settled for what surprised me?

Elder wand business did surprise me, yes.

Lupin dying actually surprised me, it did. Not because his death I 
just did not see, but because after HBP I just thought that the 
reason JKR gave him a girlfriend was to give him something to hold on 
to life - since all his friends are dead, etc. After OOP I would have 
totally expected him to die, but not after HBP. Who knew that JKR did 
that specifically because she wanted to kill the parents.

Oh, oh Hagrid NOT dying surprised me as well. I was sure he was 
toasted.


What else?

Oh, oh, I guess the fact that meaning of "Severus, please" did 
surprised me, but in a bit different way that I expected to be. I 
mean, again we talked about it, but this was something that even if 
Snape turns out to be good, I really really did not expect to be the 
part of it AND I thought that if this will be true, I would hate 
Dumbledore for it.

So it did come true. Funnily, I really do not hate Dumbledore for it.

Dumbledore's past was a nice revelation story wise. But I do not know 
if I was surprised, since I thought it was soo cool. Just something 
new that I learned about Dumbledore.

Alla.