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Accio Quote Uncovers Canon in Old J. K. Rowling Interview
BooksFollowing up on The Herald piece we told you about yesterday, where reporter Anne Johnstone looked back on the past ten years and previous interviews with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, our Floo partner Accio Quote now has the June 2000 interview cited in the article included in their collection. Not only is this interview an addition to the resource’s archive, it also provides us with further canon detail on the topic of death. The original article expands on the notation made by Miss Johnstone in her latest article about the title characters fate in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As cited on the Accio Quote News Blog, Jo says in the original article from 2000:
One of her fundamentals is that you can’t reverse death: “That’s a given. Without it the plot would fall apart, though in Book Seven you’ll see just how close you can get to the dead. You can be brought back from being petrified and from injuries that in the real world are mortal, depending on the degree of skill that a particular wizard possesses. You can’t go to any wizard and say ‘Will you cure my terminally ill relative?’ It’s a mirror image of the real world in that sense.”
Also from the article, Jo also remarks of Professor Snape as a ‘compendium of all the bullying teachers she ever encountered,’ and relates a particular event with a previous book editor and a ‘particularly violent bishop.’
“In Philosopher’s Stone I had a game of chess between Harry and Ron which Ron won by using a particularly violent bishop. My editor made me take it out. He didn’t want me to have a bad bishop. Well, he’s back, I have a different editor now.” [This refers to GoF23, where Ron beats Harry at chess with the bishop.]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21st.
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Interesting, very interesting. I wonder exactly what JKR means by what she said about death exactly and how will we see this played out in the book?
“Five and six will be shorter!” Well, I guess that was a little bit of wishful thinking.
”...though in Book Seven you’ll see just how close you can get to the dead.” She’s got to be referring to going beyond the veil there. July 21 is too far away!!
Super! End to all the return-from dead theories concerning Dumbledore and Sirius, I hope. Not that I’m saying Harry won’t see them again, or that they won’t ‘reappear’ in the books… just: they are DEAD. sniff
V-E-R-Y interesting…. I am now 100% sure that they go beyond the veil; it seems almost a given.
Very interesting! I can’t wait! It’s already July here in the Netherlands!
Draught of the Living Death, anyone? I think someone will be brewing up a batch of this and they will need the HBP potions book to do it…..
Back to the Room Of Requirement we go!
Great find Accio Quote!
I knew it! Those shadows in the background of the US cover just have to be those beyond the veil.
Snape is going to bring someone back from the brink of death, possibly Harry. He’s the one with the most talent, we saw it with Draco and then again when Dd said he needed Snape’s help after the potion, and then again when Harry notes that Snape might have done more for Bill than Madam Pomfrey… his skills in healing and remedies are totally being emphasised. it’s obviously leading to something.
OMG!!! Drought of the living dead, i completly forgot about that. Although i think we can rule out sirius and dd being alive.
I hope we see whats behind the veil, they said in the book that there wasnt a body for sirius, why not? Avada Kevada kills you with no harm to the body, but wait, its not explained which spell bellatrix fired at sirius. I think that was deliberate.
great find you guys! and it has rekindled my hope that my dear Sirius may still be alive!!!!
i hope beyond hope!!!!
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Definitely a beyond the veil reference. And I hadn’t thought about it before reading these comments, but I do now see that as possibly a reference to Snape’s healing skills too. Also, didn’t Dumbledore say something to the effect that those we love never truly leave us? And didn’t Harry, at the end of HBP, without really understanding why he was saying it, say something to the effect of “he’s not as gone as you might think” about Dumbledore? On the back of the UK children’s cover, in the light streaming out of Hogwarts, if you turn the cover upsidedown, an image of possibly Dumbledore can be seen in the light. Note that no previous headmaster/mistress of Hogwarts was ever buries at Hogwarts, but Dumbledore specificly requested it. I think that some form of his “presence” will be in action to some degree at Hogwarts.
Sirius is awesome! we are definitly going to find out what’s behind the veil and it’s hopefully going to be a living sirius!
Sirius was kill by the fall beyon the veil, not by a curse.
We hear voices comming from behind the veil. Who knows what JKR will do with that…
It is not without intentions that when Snape was introduced, his powers as a potion maker were listed. I believe JKR has something up her sleeve.
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Wow! What an excellent find :)