She's Evil

[davewitley]

Phyllis wrote:
>
> The second WOMBAT is up on JKR.com, and I don't see how in the world 
> we're supposed to know how to answer some (actually most) of the 
> questions.  Even getting into the room is a huge challenge - I tried 
> to follow the directions on TLC, but I couldn't get the key to work 
> properly until I found a screenshot of the correct key placement on 
> Mugglenet.
> 
> As if I didn't already feel incredibly intellectually inferior to 
> Jo ...

Kelley more or less walked me through the motions to get to the WOMBAT.

I think it's pretty clear that some of the questions either have no 
right answer or the highest-scoring answer is the one that accords 
most with JKR's values.  Neither case suggests intellectual 
superiority on JKR's part.

I do wonder if some of them are really a kind of concealed poll of 
fandom opinion.

I think that when, say, you have to pick one option that is false, the 
idea is that you pick the one that you know from canon *must* be 
false, rather than one that is pretty likely to false, all things 
considered, but you don't actually know.

David