Changes to JKR official site - or bad memory?

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 183697

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grace Donaldson" 
<goodgracious at ...> wrote:
>
> I thought for sure that a year ago I got two ideas from JKR's 
> official website:
> 
> 1) It was highly unadvisable to make any living creature a 
horcrux, 
> and impossible to make a *person* a horcrux, and
> 
> 2) In the Fidelius Charm, if the Secret Keeper dies (oh blin - was 
> it the Secret Keeper or the subjects of the FC? oh dear; I wish I 
> could find where I read this!), the secret dies with him/her -- 
and 
> I thought she explicated this further by saying that no one new 
> could be brought into the secret.  This one seemed to be written 
> post-PoA, as no reference was made to DD being secret keeper for 
the 
> OP HQ.  (Two problems: if she actually said this, there are 
problems 
> for at least one of the FCs we know about: How could everyone find 
> the Potters' house in Godric's Hollow, since PP was still alive?  
> Unless, of course, it is that if the *subjects* die, then the 
charm 
> breaks and everyone can find the hidden location.  Second problem: 
> was Hermione just plain wrong, and created greater difficulties 
than 
> necessary, because she couldn't actually bring Yaxley into 12GP?)
> 
> I remember studying her website last year before DH came out, and 
> while I wasn't a member of this group, I was formulating theories 
of 
> what would happen in the final book.  Some of my theories were 
based 
> on what I *thought* was canon.  Now I can't find these two points 
on 
> her site.  Did I actually read these things on her website, or did 
I 
> read them somewhere else (eg, an interview on Mugglenet), or did 
an 
> imposter write them, and I believed she actually said these 
things?  
> Does anyone else recall reading these two explanations, and if so, 
> where?
> 
> Thanks,
> yraiym

Leah: I don't remember JKR mentioning the living horcrux on her 
site, but that might just be my memory.  I think in HBP, which I 
can't access at the moment, Dumbledore talks about Nagini being a 
possible horxrux and this being a risky thing to do.  However, the 
idea that when a Secret Keeper dies, the secret dies with them, was 
most definitely on the website, and I am pretty sure it was in the 
FAQs section, which contains answers to readers' questions. I have 
just checked and it is no longer there.  I remember when DH came 
out, there was quite a bit of comment on how the theory behind 'Dead 
Secret Keeper' had changed; that and the fact that Hermione had 
changed from a 'Hernione Jane' as per interview to 'Hermione Jean'.

Leah