[the_old_crowd] OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...

[Amanda Geist]

I am getting seriously pissed.

I cannot access the interview. Anything with "msn" in the URL gets rerouted
to this Skeetch search engine thing. I can't get to msn.com, or msn.co.uk,
much less the specific page with the audio.

Is there anywhere else that I can hear this? Do any of you techies know how
msn got hijacked on my machine? I've run SpyBot and gotten Skeetch off my
taskbars and stuff, and no searching for 'skeetch,' as either part of a
filename or as text in a file, has found anything. How is it *doing* that,
then?

I want to *hear* this! AAAAAAGHHHH

~Amanda

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <insanus_scottus at ...>
To: <the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:43 AM
Subject: [the_old_crowd] OOP: Royal Albert Hall interview...


> I've just finished watching JKR's interview with Stephen Fry and her
> reading at the Royal Albert Hall. Mostly it was the same sort of
> stuff and not all that interesting.There was one point when kids
> from around the world gave a montage-like summary of "the story so
> far"-- ick! it was overly sappy, though I will concede kind of cute.
>
> Anyways we did find out a few things and she gave some tantalizing
> hints. Oh and I went to my mailbox just in time to discover my
> British Edition of the book had arrived so that I could follow along
> with Jo. :-)
>
> One thing that I think I just didn't catch, but I'm sure one of you
> Brits can expound, is that she said she went to school at the Forest
> of Dean and that that is where Hagrid is from as well? Uh...where's
> the Forest of Dean? (Is it the name of a place?)
>
> There were two questions about Snape both of which I thought were
> noteworthy. One being that Fry mentioned Snape's ambiguity for good
> and evil and Jo hastened to add that (paraphrased) "I don't want
> people to like Severus too much...[because of things that happen
> later on]" Hmmm. Later a boy asked her why DD didn't just give Snape
> the DADA job to begin with if he really wanted it, and she said DD
> thought it would "bring out the worst", which has certainly been
> theorized before, so DD said something to the effect of-- why don't
> we just try you out at potions. If Snape didn't *want* to teach
> potions, or as this suggests, hadn't even considered it, then why
> does he seem so protective of the subject now? Obviously something
> has convinced him of its (potions) worthiness.
>
> She also made the comment that she thought Lupin was the best
> teacher (better than McGonagall) but that his failing is "that he
> does like to be liked." I'm assuming here that she means his
> yearning for friends allowed him to disregard his better judgement
> and let them do stupid things (like becoming Animagi) on his behalf.
>
> As for the death, after Stephen Fry made a big to do about not
> revealing he calmly mentioned Sirius's name, JKR did say that she
> wrote it in such a way that it felt "Arbitary and Sudden", "almost
> accidentally", and she said something about "no death bed scene for
> this person..." but I'd have to watch it again to quote directly.
> This is pretty much what I'd said before. I really think that Jo
> felt NOT making a big deal out of it would make it more powerful.
> This reminded me of another of my favorite authors E.M. Forster who
> always wrote with a sense of gesture and styling-- long flowing
> sentences and sweeping narrative descriptions--but reverted to
> simpler constructions and vocabulary for things of momentous
> importance which, I think, is sometimes more powerful. That is what
> JKR appears to have intended with Sirius's death...
>
> Someone did ask her about the Thestrals...why harry couldn't have
> ALWAYS seen them because of his parents or why at least he couldn't
> at the end of GoF. She said (as as someone suggested) that the death
> had to sink in, and I got the impression that has it did the
> Thestrals *slowly* appear. It appears to have been for the simple
> reason that the narrative works much better if they appear at the
> beginning of OOP than at the end of GoF with just a passing mention.
> She still didn't deal with the fact that Harry saw his parents die,
> but I guess he didn't let that sink in because it couldn't at the
> time...not for a child of one.
>
> But at least she was on her toes, and I understand why she held out
> on the Thestrals even if it doesn't exactly work.
>
> All in all the show is worth watching if for no other reason that
> hearing JKR do Umbridge's vile voice in the reading! Besides the
> links remain up until July 3rd so you've got time!
>
> http://www.msn.co.uk/liveevents/harrypotter/event/
>
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
>
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