[the_old_crowd] Re: A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[Randy Estes]

With all these comments about JKR hiding things with
her comments, I feeled compelled to say something. 
She is in a room full of adoring kid fans during some
of these interviews.  

What do you answer to an older child who asks on
December 23,  "Isn't it true that Santa does not
exist?" in front of his younger siblings!

Imaginary response: "Well since I must never tell a
lie, He is a fake and I guess you kids will just have
to live with the truth.  Sorry for spoiling everything
for everyone else here because someone thought I was
hiding something!"

So, you cannot assume that some of JKR's answers are
not misleading.  She has an obligation to the greater
fandom not to give the ending away 3 years before the
book comes out.  This is not an obligation to Warner
Brothers!  It is an obligation to her faithful kid
fans who don't want to have their Christmas spoiled
(so to speak).

Randy ( who has lived a version of this analogy in his
own home) 


--- "Lyn J. Mangiameli" <kumayama at ...>
wrote:

> 
>> Lyn:
> Yep, it seems to me that JKR has intended for us to
> at least think of Snape according to 
> that image, whether or not she intends him to be
> one.
> 
> Back to Neri: 
> > And yet, all the attempts to link Snape to
> Potterverse vampires are
> > shaky at best. Yes, there are several notes in the
> books about
> > vampires as dark creatures, but not more than
> there are notes about
> > hags, for example. There is the famous JKR
> rebuttal "Erm... I don't
> > think so". And as Magda wrote, what would be the
> point, plot wise, of
> > Snape being a vampire? 
> 
> Lyn:
> Of course this is the area where we have different
> assumptions. I rarely take JKR's 
> interviews literally or definitively. Why the
> hesitation (particularly when she was apparently 
> typing and didn't have to respond instantaneously)
> and why anything less than an 
> unequivocal "No." To me her response is intended to
> be neither a positive nor negative 
> disclosure of future events and underlying truth in
> the series.  
> 
> > 
> 



		
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