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> Sandy:
>  
> Okay, I'm going to jump in on this too. I am going to  agree with 
Shelley's assessment of the Dumbledore statement in that it was the  
most obvious one, made up of whole cloth and out of the blue, for 
what purposes  I am still trying to determine. There was absolutely 
nothing in canon to point  us in this direction.

Potioncat:
I didn't get the feel that she made this up later. From her wording, 
I thought it was either 1) from the beginning she pictured DD as gay 
or 2) as the books developed she began to think of him as gay.

We know JKR created detailed back stories for many characters, even 
very minor ones. We also know that she had some characters and 
storylines at the ready, that never made it to print.

I don't think every detail had to make it to print; it still had 
impact as how JKR wrote the character. Yeah, if it had been in the 
book, we readers would have experienced the story differently---and 
there would have been a wide range of differences as what meaning 
readers gave that detail.

Severely Sigune wrote an interesting essay supporting DD as gay, 
using literary "signals". If anyone's interested, I'll look for a 
link.

Sandy:
 But the conflicting post DH statements she gave that  irritated me 
the most, and caused me lose respect for her, was the Trio's  
professions. 

Potioncat:
I find that very frustrating, too. And I agree that some of her 
comments do not seem thought out or even honest. I mean, honest in 
the sense that she really had an answer. JustCarol made some good 
points along that line.

Sandy:
A week or so after the book was released I watched, and taped, an  
interview she did  with one of the major USA networks, and can't 
remember which  it was.
 <snip>
The very next  day she did a live chat on the internet, was asked the 
same question, but this  time she gave a different answer. 

Potioncat:
If I'm thinking of the same interview, I agree that was a big 
mistake, which makes no sense at all.

And if it was the same interview, it wasn't live--the network one, I 
mean. I don't know how long before it had been filmed, but it wasn't 
live. So there may have been more time than one day between the 
network interview and the live chat. Still---Ron's career was a big 
mistake. Did we ever find out which one was correct? (I was sure he 
would be a Healer!)


Sandy:
She had also changed the statement about Luna. In the interview Luna 
was not married, in the live chat Luna was married to Whoever 
Scamander.

Potioncat:
In the interview I saw, she was asked if Luna and Neville got 
together. She seemed surprised and said that was a good idea, or 
something like that, but didn't indicate who they had married if 
anyone. But I don't recall her saying that Luna hadn't married.

I tried to find a link for the Dateline interview that I think you 
may be referring to. I have a link to the actual video of it----I 
think. But I couldn't find a transcript.

I'd like to suggest that when possible, we post a link to the 
interview being discussed, then paste that link into each reply so 
that everyone can find the exact quotes.

Potioncat, who wasn't any good at cutting and pasting in 
Kindergarten, and is just catching on to it in cyberspace.