Secret Keeper: was:ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 182763

With regard to JKR's statements, Pippin said:
>Forex, if you read the secret keeper answer on the web, it says
>absolutely nothing that is contradicted by later canon. The status of
>the secret remains as it was when the secret keeper dies. That's
>*true* --the secret remains known to those who knew it already.
>
>But the language is ambiguous -- *when* the secret keeper dies the
>status of the secret remains the same. What happens *after* the 
>secret
>keeper dies, ah, that would be telling <g>.

This one I find a bit of a stretch.  After all, it isn't as if this 
question was sprung on her in an interview.  She put the question on 
her web site as one of three for people to vote on, then had time to 
consider when it looked like it was going to win.

Of course, this is my pet, first problem with DH.  She put the secret 
keeper question on her web site and chose to answer it when she could 
have avoided it.  She either gave an intentionally misleading answer 
or couldn't keep her ideas straight on this very important issue for a 
year.

I completely understood how she could change her mind about things 
mentioned in early interviews, like the "character who works magic 
late in life", or how questions about Snape or DD could lead her to 
give answers that seem in retrospect misleading.  But with the 
questions on her own web site, she had lots of time to consider both 
the question and answer.  No one put her back to the wall.

Just my take on this issue.

Jerri