DD=Ron is officially sunk

[pippin_999]

Neri:
> And Flitwick has a touch of Goblin blood in him. Pippin, does this
_ help? <g>

Pippin:
Funnily enough, it does <g>. Clearly there are more part humans
 teaching at Hogwarts than one might suspect. It goes to my 
contention that mixed blood is actually a pretty common thing 
in the WW, far more common than some puristas would like to 
think. 

It's also clear that Herself has been paying attention to fandom
rumours for some time now, so the idea that she never even heard
of Vampire!Snape until the book day chat is losing credibility
quickly, IMO.

Those of you who formerly espoused elaborate theories about Mark
Evans and or Ron=Dumbledore – if JKR had fobbed you off with an
 –Erm, I don't think so- instead of complimenting you on your 
inventiveness, would you be convinced or would you think
 she might be hiding something? 

Neri: 
> Herself is also "fine" about the omission of the Marauders' Map
> background from the movie. Does this say something about MAGIC
_ DISHWASHER and the rest of the Marauders theories?

Pippin:
Erm, I don't think so <g>. Seriously, when each page of the
script costs millions of dollars to shoot, repeating  an 
unresolved plot point from one movie to another is not a cost 
effective method of story telling unless perchance it's a cliff
hanger. But by the time Book Seven becomes a film, the majority
of the audience is going to know how it ends (shades 
of LOTR) and cliff hangers are going to be a mite 
superfluous in any case.

Pippin