Get Fuzzy comic & RAB

[eloise_herisson]

SSSusan:
> YES.  I think you're absolutely correct that this kind of 
leak/juicy 
> tidbit/"Damn! Why did she spoil THAT?" comes out of JKR's true 
> interest in her fans.  I really do think that sometimes she starts 
to 
> feel a bit sorry for us, or concerned for the time we're "wasting," 
> once she realizes we're starting to go too far afield in an area.  
<snip>.
> 
> Maybe Herself saw the theories about RAB as Amy Benson or Stubby 
> Boardman or Mr. Black or a member of the Bones family as 
potentially 
> major disappointments and wanted to let us know not to waste time 
> there?
> 
> Perhaps I give her too much credit for:  1) keeping up with fan 
> discussions; and 2) caring; but I do wonder.


The interesting thing about this one, I think, is that she positively 
leapt on Melissa and Emerson's question about it:

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MA: R.A.B.

JKR: Ohhh, good.

[All laugh.]

JKR: No, I'm glad! Yes?

MA: Can we figure out who he is, from what we know so far?

[Note: JKR has adopted slightly evil look here]

JKR: Do you have a theory?

MA: We've come up with Regulus Black.

JKR: Have you now?

MA: Uh-oh.

[Laughter.]

JKR: Well, I think that would be, um, a fine guess.

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This is the very same interview in which she talks about how some 
lines of enquiry are profitable and some. For some reason, she 
*wants* us to enquire about RAB, so surely it can't be fruitless, 
must be more than not wanting us to go tracking down theories about 
other possible candidates. The initials are surely too obvious for 
her to assume that wilder speculation would take place and the 
interview was too early for her already to be aware of any, I think. 
It seems more in line with her telling us that Dumbledore's ancestry 
would be a profitable line of enquiry, though how we're supposed to 
start on that I don't know.

~Eloise