Entrevista de Mugglenet y TLC parte 1
Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry! Most people would think that's good and beheaded, but oh, no, it's not enough for Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore.
Nearly-Headless Nick
Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8, Page 124
¡Mi mamá está actuando como una quejona inmensa! Naturalmente la causa es derribada del inquilino. Siendo sincera, ¿cuando de verdad ella no le ha buscado algún tipo de defecto a cualquiera persona que decide convivir con nosotros? Y como era esperado, su tensión se está elevando paulatinamente. Estoy seguro de que estallara en cualquier minuto y ella y el inquilino se encararan en una batalla verbal. Desde luego, será inevitable.
Y ahora sigamos a la entrevista cortesía de Emerson y Melissa (criticada y analizada por mi misma):
http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview.shtml
July 16, 2005: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince publication day
Edinburgh, Scotland
Part One
WARNING: The entirety of this interview is colored by book six - which means if you don't yet want to be spoiled or haven't yet read Half-Blood Prince, reading this interview will not be good for your health. Be warned!
Emerson Spartz, MuggleNet (ES): Who do you discuss Harry Potter with?
Una respuesta más o menos larga de JKR qué no revela nada.
ES: This is kind of a strange question but how many times have you read your own story?
JKR: That is not a strange question, it's a very valid question because once the book is published I rarely reread. A funny thing is when I do pick up a book to check a fact which I obviously do a lot, if I start reading then I do get kind of sucked in myself and I may read several pages and then I put it away and go back to what I’m doing, but I would never, if for example I was heading to the bath, and I wanted to pick up something to read, I’d never pick up one of my own books. Therefore there are thousands of fans who know the books much better than I do. My one advantage is I know what’s going to happen, and I’ve got a lot of backstory.
Esto sí es una pregunta digna de hacer. Me sorprendió. Ahora sé porque ha hecho ella tantos "flints". ¿Una historia tan interesante como la de ella y no se molesta en leerla? Vaya.
Melissa Anelli, The Leaky Cauldron (MA): How many boxes is it, now, of backstory?
JKR: It really is hard to say because I’m so disorganized, but yeah, there’s boxes. It’s mainly in notebooks because the backstory is so valuable, so I mainly need that in a format I can retrieve, because I lose stuff. So, it’s harder to lose a book than it is a bit of paper.
Si solo podía darnos un pistazo a por lo menos una cajita.
ES: When book seven is out, will you keep the Web site open to keep answering questions?
JKR: Yeah, I don’t see the Web site closing, like on the stroke of midnight when the seventh book’s finished. No, definitely not. My feeling is, I couldn’t possibly answer all the questions, because the novel is the wrong form in which to, for example, present a catalog of your characters' favourite colors. But people actually want to know - it’s that kind of detail isn’t it? So, I’m never going to answer everything that an obsessive fan would want to know in the novels, and the Web site is another way of doing that.
Also I think people will continue to theorize about the characters even at the end of book seven because some people are very interested in certain characters whose past lives are not germane to the plot, they’re not central to the story, so there is big leeway there still for fanfiction, just as there is, I mean - Jane Austen, I'm a huge Jane Austen fan and you wonder about the characters lives at the end of the story. They still exist, they still live, you're bound to wonder, aren't you? But I am as sure as I can be currently that seven will be the final novel, even though I get a lot of really big puppy dog eyes. “Just one more!” Yeah, I think it will be seven.
Ojala qué podamos saber los detalles obsesivos en un futuro pero me parece que esta pregunta podría haber esperado pa' cuando se acaba la serie.
ES: Seven books is a long series.
JKR: Yeah, exactly, I don't think they're going to say you wimped out, come on!
MA: If you were to write anything else on the Harry Potter series would it be about Harry Potter himself or another character or a reference book?
JKR: The most likely thing I’ve said this a few times before, would be an encyclopedia in which I could have fun with the minor characters and I could give the definitive biography of all the characters.
Por el amor de Dios, ¡hágalo!
MA: OK, big big big book six question. Is Snape evil?
JKR: [Almost laughing] Well, you've read the book, what do you think?
ES: She's trying to make you say it categorically.
MA: Well, there are conspiracy theorists, and there are people who will claim -
Es un buen intento a pesar de todo.
JKR: Cling to some desperate hope [laughter] -
¿Qué? ¿Cual esperanza desesperada? Hay bastantes pistas indicando el papel de Snape y dejarlo de malo simplemente es demasiado obvio...
ES: Yes!
MA: Yes!
ES: Like certain shippers we know!
Totalmente fuera de lugar.
[All laugh]
JKR: Well, okay, I'm obviously - Harry-Snape is now as personal, if not more so, than Harry-Voldemort. I can't answer that question because it's a spoiler, isn't it, whatever I say, and obviously, it has such a huge impact on what will happen when they meet again that I can't. And let's face it, it's going to launch 10,000 theories and I'm going to get a big kick out of reading them so [laughs] I'm evil but I just like the theories, I love the theories.
ES: I know Dumbledore likes to see the good in people but he seems trusting almost to the point of recklessness sometimes.
[Laughter] Yes, I would agree. I would agree.
Me sigue confundiendo. Si está de acuerdo quiere decir que Snape mantiene una alianza real con Voldemort?
ES: How can someone so -
JKR: Intelligent -
ES: be so blind with regard to certain things?
JKR: Well, there is information on that to come, in seven. But I would say that I think it has been demonstrated, particularly in books five and six that immense brainpower does not protect you from emotional mistakes and I think Dumbledore really exemplifies that. In fact, I would tend to think that being very, very intelligent might create some problems and it has done for Dumbledore, because his wisdom has isolated him, and I think you can see that in the books, because where is his equal, where is his confidante, where is his partner? He has none of those things. He’s always the one who gives, he’s always the one who has the insight and has the knowledge. So I think that, while I ask the reader to accept that McGonagall is a very worthy second in command, she is not an equal. You have a slightly circuitous answer, but I can't get much closer than that.
ES: No, that was a good answer.
MA: It's interesting about Dumbledore being lonely.
JKR: I see him as isolated, and a few people have said to me rightly I think, that he is detached. My sister said to me in a moment of frustration, it was when Hagrid was shut up in his house after Rita Skeeter had published that he was a half-breed, and my sister said to me, “Why didn't Dumbledore go down earlier, why didn't Dumbledore go down earlier?” I said he really had to let Hagrid stew for a while and see if he was going to come out of this on his own because if he had come out on his own he really would have been better. "Well he's too detached, he's too cold, it's like you,” she said!" [Laughter] By which she meant that where she would immediately rush in and I would maybe stand back a little bit and say, “Let's wait and see if he can work this out.” I wouldn't leave him a week. I'd leave him maybe an afternoon. But she would chase him into the hut.
ES: This is one of my burning questions since the third book - why did Voldemort offer Lily so many chances to live? Would he actually have let her live?
¡Una observación destacada!
JKR: Mmhm.
ES: Why?
JKR: [silence] Can't tell you. But he did offer, you're absolutely right. Don't you want to ask me why James's death didn't protect Lily and Harry? There's your answer, you've just answered your own question, because she could have lived and chose to die. James was going to be killed anyway. Do you see what I mean? I’m not saying James wasn't ready to; he died trying to protect his family but he was going to be murdered anyway. He had no - he wasn't given a choice, so he rushed into it in a kind of animal way, I think there are distinctions in courage. James was immensely brave. But the caliber of Lily's bravery was, I think in this instance, higher because she could have saved herself. Now any mother, any normal mother would have done what Lily did. So in that sense her courage too was of an animal quality but she was given time to choose. James wasn't. It's like an intruder entering your house, isn't it? You would instinctively rush them. But if in cold blood you were told, "Get out of the way," you know, what would you do? I mean, I don't think any mother would stand aside from their child. But does that answer it? She did very consciously lay down her life. She had a clear choice -
ES: And James didn't.
JKR: Did he clearly die to try and protect Harry specifically given a clear choice? No. It's a subtle distinction and there's slightly more to it than that but that's most of the answer.
MA: Did she know anything about the possible effect of standing in front of Harry?
JKR: No - because as I've tried to make clear in the series, it never happened before. No one ever survived before. And no one, therefore, knew that could happen.
MA: So no one - Voldemort or anyone using Avada Kedavra - ever gave someone a choice and then they took that option [to die] -
¡Aja!, entonces tiene que haber un secreto enterrado en el pasado que surgerá en libro 7, ojala. Es hecho claro por JKR que en el caso de Voldemort y los Potter hay un aspecto unico contribuyendo a los acontecimientos subsequentes. Porque si te pones a pensar, ¿Desde cuando Voldemort le daria un chance a alguien para que viviera? Yo lo tiene presumido que él no se molesta en asuntos de piedad ni misericordia.
JKR: They may have been given a choice, but not in that particular way.
Una pena que no nos da más ejemplos.