Views on clues Re: A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[pippin_999]

Kneasy:
> I admit to having strong feelings about  this.
> If JKR lies then all the Q&A sessions over the last 6 years are a 
fraud.Totally pointless except as an exercise in self promotion.
 I would hate to have to come to that conclusion. 
 Can you imagine the furore if that happened to be the case?<

Pippin:
Were you furious when you realized that if you had recognized 
that Tom Marvolo Riddle was an anagram of 'I am Lord 
Voldemort'  you could have figured everything out? JKR didn't tell 
us she was going to use anagrams, but she did give us a hint 
with the legend over the Mirror of Erised. The clue is that like 
Erised, Marvolo is a nonsense word.

I maintain that some of JKR's interview answers are coded, and 
the coded ones can be spotted just the way lies in the books 
can. By the use of equivocal language, answers that don't 
address the question, and hesitancy on the part of the speaker.

Bluffing is part of the game. The trick is to spot the 'tells'.

Kneasy:
> But of course you may have to face the uncomfortable 
possibility that her clues are lies too. Where will that leave your 
theories?<

Pippin:
You mean, if I made the utterly shocking discovery that there are 
clues in the books which can be deciphered only if their obvious 
meaning is discarded? Otherwise known as red herrings?  Um, 
I suppose that will leave my theories exactly where they are now. 
Unproven and subject to dismantling by unequivocal canon. I do 
abandon my theories at times, but only when they stop making 
sense to me.  

 If I'm on the right track with ESE!Lupin then JKR *does* give 
misleading statements in her interviews. ESE!Lupin has 
correctly predicted developments in canon, for example that you 
can see the Quidditch pitch from the DADA office, so you can 
appreciate that I am not ready to abandon it. 

Pippin
horribly afraid that JKR will fake an honorable death for Lupin in 
Book Six just to further muddy the waters. Now that would be a 
scurvy trick.