An Evening with Harry, Carrie, and Garp

[ziasudra]

I just came back from "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp," a book reading event featuring Stephen King, John Irving, and J.K. Rowling. Each author read an excerpt of his or her work and answered questions at the end. I went with something like 20 other people, and it was a lot of fun :)My absolute favorite person of the night was John Irving.

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[ziasudra]

Well, as I said, nothing's clear cut with Rowling so we don't know for sure yet.

It's interesting because from scrutinizing the transcript, we can surmise that JKR said "your opinion is correct" to 1) Snape is good, 2) Harry will have more allies than he realizes, 3) like Salman Rushdie, that there are many people who can't/don't want to accept that Snape seems to be evil, or 4) everything else in the book/plot follows Snape's allegiance, as Rushdie said. Now, the points can overlap with one another, but there's no real way to know which part of Rushdie's question she said yes to.

At the night of the reading, I barely heard Rushdie's last line, the laughing in the audience was so loud. So JKR could be directly addressing the "In our opinion" and that would be the end of the speculation. But from the audience's perspective (who may not have been able to hear the last line), the only other thing she could affirm was Rushdie's theory, and since she went on to confirm Dumbledore's death, this left the Snape question.

So... differences between hearing something live and poring over a transcript :)

This post mainly recorded how I interpreted and reacted to the question and answer, which I doubt will affect me much in character expectation/speculation. It's kind of sad, but a big chunk of me doesn't have too high of an expectation for Book 7. Not yet at least. Maybe the apathy will go away the month before the book will be released, lol.