HBP interview

[Amanda Geist]

Potioncat:
There once was a Master of Potions

Who followed his vengeful notions.

He'd sneer and he'd snark

He'd lurk in the dark,

Thus, inflaming the readers' emotions.
 
Amandageist:
 
And also a headmaster wise
 
Who let all that meanness disguise
 
The potion-man's task--
 
Quite handy, to mask
 
The truth behind their enterprise.


 
Amandageist:
 
> > Earlier interviews--wasn't Snape to redeem himself? "Redeem" is 
an 
> > interesting use if it's in spite of his intentions. Hm. Link, 
> > anyone with more time? 

Nora:
> 
> Heh, no help *here*:
> 
> There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
> 
> JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't 
> because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, 
> can I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said 
that 
> and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's 
all 
> I'm going to say.

But she says book *7*. Did she move Dumbledore's death "up" a book? 
We have not yet seen what she's referring to; there's more of the 
pattern to come.

Damn that ingenious woman. What does she say when her kids ask her if 
they can have a cookie?

~Amanda