Who'd have thought it? was: Re: Snape the Half-Blood Prince WAS RE: Page-filler

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> *frowns* Just because JKR forgets GoF canon, it doesn't mean you should
> too! 
>snip> 
> 
> Of course, JKR's timelines are so muddled it's rather difficult to
> theorize about exactly when what was going on. 
> 

Y-e-e-e-s. 
Dodgy maths, dodgy timelines, occasional dodgy recall of canon.
Sometimes one wonders if Jo could hold her own in some of the
convoluted analysis threads that occasionally grace the boards.
There might be a good reason for this - if you give credence to
a little snippet in the current issue of 'Locus':-

*Pseudo-Potter*

"J.K.Rowling announced during a BBC radio interview she will use a
pseudonym for post-Potter writing. She wants her future work to be
judged away from the success of the Potter series.

Norwegian film director Nina Grunfeld questioned the authenticity of
J.K.Rowling, claiming she may be an actress representing a group of
writers using the pseudonym for the series, in an article for Norwegian
newspaper Aftenposten. She likened J.K.Rowling to Carolyn Keene, the
ficticious author of the Nancy Drew Series. [...] The photo of Grunfeld,
oddly enough, looks just like Rowling."

Ah, I see it all, now.
It's gonna be a repeat of that Shakespeare authorship theory - the plays
weren't written by William Shakespeare, but by someone else with exactly
the same name.
Cunning ploy.

Kneasy