A Whisper About Time-Travel

[pippin_999]

David:

> We have two ways of looking at it, I think.  One is that the 
> debunked speculations are close to the mark and she wants to 
> misdirect by getting naive fans to go somewhere else entirely.  In 
> that case travellers from the past are possibly something she's 
> trying ineptly to draw us away from.
> 
> The other is that the speculations are so far from anything in the 
> books that she (mistakenly IMO) wants to save fans the bother of 
> pursuing them.  In that case the admittedly slipshod deduction that 
> time travellers are ruled out completely is probably safe.
> 
> Similar reasoning applies to the case of Flamel and the putative 
> Potions Master vacancy.
> 
Pippin:
And the links to vampires.<g>

David:
> In neither case does JKR come very well out of it.  The best way to 
> conceal future developments is simply to remain silent about plot 
> matters, and if fans enjoy off-the-wall speculations why should she 
> feel responsible for shooting them down?


Pippin:
The shoot downs generally contain a mystery or two...why was it 
 important that Mark Evans have a common name? Who "sent" the
 Lestranges?

As for the ambiguous debunkings...
 Jo might feel that those who have taken the trouble to work things
 out deserve a little acknowledgement, at least as much as she can 
offer without giving everything away. She has to do it now.

If she says nothing, the fans who got it right, or almost right, 
will get no recognition for  sleuthing. It isn't so  
difficult to spot  clues once the mystery is revealed.

Pippin