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JKR, with TLC, Oct 20, 2007

(x: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more)



J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah Abbott, and Much More

 

Oct 20, 2007


Posted by: EdwardTLC



*리키콜드런에 올라왔던 "카네기홀" 인터뷰

*패러프레이징하면서 원문에서 좀 변경되었을 수 있음 

*최종본이 아니지만 질의응답에 대한 정확도는 유지하려고 노력하였음(이라고 써져있음)




(x: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more)

  • Neville is married to Hannah Abbott, the new landlady of the Leaky Cauldron making him extra cool with the students because he lives above the pub.
  • Molly was the one to finish off Bellatrix to demonstrate her other talents, and to show the clash of loves, Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort and Molly's maternal love.
  • To an 8 year old questioner, she said that Aberforth's goat charm was to make a goat that was easy to keep clean with curly horns.
  • Dumbledore is gay, and fell in love with Grindelwald, adding to his horror when Grindelwald later showed his true nature.
  • Ron was able to duplicate the parseltongue word for "Open" after hearing Harry say it, but he wouldn't be able to speak to snakes.
  • Dumbledore persuaded Petunia to take Harry in, by appealing to the part of her that had wanted to go to Hogwarts and be a part of the magical world and hated Lily unjustly because she couldn't.
  • The horcrux part of Harry wasn't destroyed in Chamber of Secrets, because Fawkes healed Harry before the damage was irreparable.
  • James supported Lupin financially, as he was unemployable. James, Lily, Sirius and Remus were full time Order fighters.
  • Hagrid never married, and James and Lily went into hiding shortly after Lily became pregnant with Harry.
  • She decided not to kill off Arthur in book 5, because it would have killed off a lot of Ron's humour, which comes from insensitivity and immaturity, and she didn't want him to grow up until the final book. She also wanted to finish with an orphan - Teddy - to mirror Harry.







Q. 사랑의 힘을 그렇게나 믿는 덤블도어가, 본인 스스로는 사랑을 한 적이 있었나요?

-사실대로 말하자면, 전 언제나 덤블도어가 게이라고 생각해 왔답니다. (박수) 덤블도어는 그린델왈드와 사랑에 빠졌었죠, 그리고 그 사실이, 그린델왈드가 그가 어떤 사람인지 드러냈을때 덤블도어에게 엄청난 공포를 안겨줬구요. 더 말하자면, 우리가 덤블도어를 조금 더 excused 할 수 있을까요, 왜냐면 사랑에 빠진다는것은 우리 눈을 멀게 만드니까요? 하지만, 그는 그만큼이나 brilliant한 사람을 만났고, 벨라트릭스처럼,  그 brilliant한 사람에 빠져들고 만 것이죠. 그리고 끔찍하게도, 절망적이게도, 그에 의해 절망하게 되었고요. 그게 제가 늘 보고있었던 덤블도어의 모습이랍니다. 사실, 최근에 영화 6편의 대본을 보았는데, 그 대본에서 덤블도어가 해리에게 하는 대사 중 이런 말이 있어요.. "옛날에 한 소녀를 알았었다, 그녀의 머리칼은.."(웃음) 여백에 짧은 주석을 달고 대본가에게 건넸죠. "덤블도어는 게이입니다" (웃음) "이 사실이 당신을 이렇게 행복하게 만들 줄 알았더라면, 수년전에 공지했을 텐데요!" 


-이제 차후 10년동안 할 일이 생겼군요....오 세상에, 팬픽이요 그쵸?




The question was: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

 

JKR: My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair… [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!” [laughter] “If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!”

 

Jo also said after revelation: “You needed something to keep you going for the next 10 years! …Oh, my god, the fan fiction now, eh?”





Q. 불의잔에서 덤블도어는 그의 형제가 적절하지 않은 주문을 사용했기 때문에 기소되었다고 했어요 (JKR 머리를 파묻고 웃음) 염소한테요.. 그가 염소에게 건 적절하지 않은 주문은 뭐죠?

-몇살이예요?

-여덟살이요.

-제 생각에 애버포스는 염소가 쉽게 더러워지지 않게 하려는 주문을 걸었을 것 같아요(웃음), 뿔은 둥글리고요. 음 그 레벨에 맞는 조크라고 할 수 있겠어요. 전 애버포스와 그의 염소들을 정말 좋아한답니다. 하지만 책 7권을 읽어보면, 애버포스가 염소에 갖는 괴상한 애착을 알 수 있을거예요. 이후 해리에게 큰 도움이 되죠, 왜냐면 염소, 염소가, 숫사슴이. 아시잖아요. 멍청한 데스이터라면, 이게 무슨 차이일까요? 이게 당신을 위한 제 대답이예요. (아주 큰 박수)


+)여덟짤 애기독자에게 대답해준거니까 정말 여덟짤 용인듯...... 오 앱........




Q. 덤블도어가 해리를 더즐리네에 맡길때 편지에 뭐라고 쓴거죠?

-아주, 아주 좋은 질문이예요. 7권에 나오지만, 페투니아는 한 때 마법세계의 일원이 되고싶어했어요. 그리고 덤블도어가 호울러를 보냈다는 것 아시겠죠.. 덤블도어는 페투니아에게 아주 친절하게, 왜 그녀가 마녀가 되기 위해 호그와트에 입학할 수 없는지 설명했답니다. 그래서 페투니아는, 그 사실을 거부해 왔던 것 만큼이나, 그 세계 자체를 반대해오는 사람으로 변하고 말았죠. 살면서 만날 수 있는 사람들 중 가장 anti-wizard인 버논을 만나게 되면서 말이죠. 그녀에겐 작은 요소였지만, 7권에서 해리에게 작별인사를 하게 될 때 해리에게 행운을 빌어주고 싶었던 그 부분이요. 뭔가 말하려고 했던 바로 그때, 페투니아는 아주 갈등하죠.. 여러분이 무엇을 반대할지 알아요, 그리고 전 그거 괜찮다고 생각해요. 하지만 페투니아는 그 말을 할 수 없었어요. 수 년동안 아무것도 신경쓰지 않는 척 했던 그 태도가 그녀를 굳게 만든거죠. 하지만 질문하신 그 편지에서 덤블도어의 어필이 있었죠, 페투니아 내면의 작은 부분은 마법세계에 함께하고 싶었던 그 마음을 기억하고 있는거예요. 그리고 덤블도어는 그녀의 페어플레이적 감성에 어필하죠, 페투니아는 자신은 갖고있지 않았던 능력을 갖고있었기 때문에 릴리를 미워했었고.. 바로 그 여동생에 대한 페어플레이적 감성 말이예요. 그게 페투니아가 고민 끝에 해리를 데리고 있게 된 이유예요. 좋은 질문이었어요.

 



Q. 왜 해리는 7권에서 덤블도어의 초상화와 얘기하지 않는거죠?

-두 가지 이유가 있는데요, 엄밀히 말하면 세 가지이죠. 왜 해리는 decode(암호해독)해야만 하죠? 덤블도어가 해리에게 말했듯이... 해리에게 성물에 대해 말하는 것은 그를  tempt him하는거죠. 그리고 해리는, 7권동안 늘 성급하고 무모한 모습들을 보여줬었구요. 그게 해리의 가장 큰 결점이죠. 해리는 생각없이 행동하는 것처럼 보이고, 덤블도어는 해리의 이런 면을 잘 알고있어요. 덤블도어는 해리가 그 여정을 따라 충분히 지혜를 얻을 만큼 시간이 필요할 거라고 생각했죠. 그래서 헤르미온느를 통해 정보를 남긴 거예요. 헤르미온느는 책에서 가장 주의깊은 인물이니까요. 그리고 덤블도어가 직접적으로 말했죠, 그러니까 good heat은 hot heads로 극복될 수 없어요. (so your good heat isn’t overcome by your hot heads.)  아니면 제가 살짝 패러프레이즈드 했을지도 모르죠 용서하세요, "자기 책 내용도 모르나봐!" (웃음) 아무튼 그게 이유예요. 해리는 "해석"을 해야해요.. 7권에서, 해리는 말하죠. 그의 결정을 두려워하고 있는거예요, 지팡이에 맞서는 걸 두려워하고있는게 아니라요. 왜냐면 그는 아무것도 안 할 사람으로 선택된게 아니거든요(he had never chosen not to act.) 그러니까 해리의 진짜 큰 성장의 순간인거죠, 그가 살면서 아주 처음으로 뭔갈 저지하기로 결정한거니까요. 해리가 덤블도어의 초상화와 이야기 하지 못하게 했던 두 가지 이유는, 제일 큰 이유는, 전 이 세계에 몇가지 규칙들을 만들었구요, 그 규칙들이 나중에 제 스토리 플롯에 영향을 미쳤죠. 쨌든 이 규칙들은 언제나 괜찮았구요. 그 규칙들이 뭐냐면-- 초상화는 오로지 같은 공간안에 있는 다른 초상화들로만 이동할 수 있어요. 그러니까, 제가 그림 속에 있다면 우리 모두 지금 카네기홀에 있으니까, 우리는 서로의 초상화로 이동할 수 있는거예요. 그리고 우리가 다른 공간으로 이동하려면 "우리가 그려진" 초상화들로만 이동이 가능해요. 초상화 속 사람이라면, 루브르나 뭐 다른 곳들로 월드투어를 다닐 수 없단 말이죠. geography적으로 제한이 있어요. 그게 이유예요. 그리고 당연히 세번째 이유는, 그럼 너무 모든게 쉬워지잖아요. 이런 줄거리가 필요 없어지는거구요!







 


-네빌 롱바텀은 후플푸프의 한나 애봇과 결혼하였다. 그녀는 리키콜드런의 주인이 되었고, 네빌이 펍 위에 살고 있다는 사실은 정말 쿨하지 않나요?


-페투니아 더즐리에 대한 사실이 밝혀졌는데, 더즐리와 해리가 해리의 17세 생일 전 헤어지게 되었을때 말하지 못했던 말.. 그녀는 해리에게 행운을 빌며 하고싶었던 말이 있었는데, "난 네가 무엇에 맞서 싸우고 있는지 안다. 그리고 다 잘될거야"


-원조 불기단 멤버에 대한 정보들도 밝혀졌다. 리무스 루핀에 대하여, 그는 늑대인간이었기 때문에 고용이 되지 않았고, 제임스와 릴리와 학창시절을 보냈던 호그와트를 졸업한 이후 생활비는 제임스의 돈으로 원조받았다고..  초기 불기단 멤버들인 제임스, 시리우스, 리무스와 릴리는 풀타임 기사단 멤버였다. "Full Time Fighters"죠. 


-법사 세계에 대한 디테일들 이야기도 나왔는데.. 초상화와 초상화 속 인물들(occupants). 초상화속 인물들은 1) 그 초상화가 걸려있는 건물 내의 다른 초상화로 이동 가능/ 다른 건물의 같은 인물 초상화 자리로 이동 가능. 그리고 해리는 전투 이후 교장실에 snape의 초상화를 걸게 하였을 것이라고, 하지만 그 초상화에게 가서 이야기를 하였을지 여부는 장담할 수 없다고.


-목숨의 빚 : 드레이코 말포이는 해리에게 목숨의 빚을 지지 않았다. 엘더완드 소유권에 대해 확실히 하면서, 이 엘더완드의 심이 무엇으로 만들어져있는지의 디테일은 주지 않았다. 해그리드는 독신으로 살았으며, 제임스와 릴리는 해리 임신 이후 도망다녔음.


대본 전체는 TLC에서 확인할 수 있으며 이하 나머지는 하이라이트 질의응답 부분.





Q.네빌은 사랑을 찾았나요?

-물론.. 네빌을 끝내주게 쿨하게 만들어주는 점은 그의 배우자인데, 네빌의 배우자는 리키콜드런의 새 주인이 된답니다. 그 점 때문에 학생들은 네빌을 엄청 쿨한 사람이라고 생각하게 될거예요... 펍 위에 사니까요. 한나 애봇과 결혼했어요.




Q.어떻게 벨라트릭스를 죽이는 역할에 몰리 위즐리를 고르게 되었나요?

-언제나 벨라를 끝장내는건 몰리일거라고 생각해왔어요. 그 역할은 네빌일 것이란 추측들을 보았지만요. 네빌은 벨라트릭스를 싫어할 확실한 이유가 있죠. 벨라트릭스를 죽일 인물들은 참 많았는데.. 흔들리지 않았어요. 전 몰리이길 바랬고, 몰리여야하는 두 가지 이유가 있었죠.


첫째, 전 몰리를 굉장히 뛰어난 마녀라고 생각해요. 집안일에 그녀의 재능들이 많이 가려져 있는 인물이죠. 왜냐하면 부엌에 오래 있지 않고, 아이들을 양육해야했으니깐... 조지 같은 아이는,... 예 충분하죠.. 전 몰리가 그녀만의 moment 를 가지길 바랬어요. "가족에 헌신하는 여성"이라고 해서 다른 데엔 재능이 없다는 의미는 아니니까요, 그걸 보여주고 싶었거든요.


두번째, 두가지 종류의 사실과 연관되는데... 만약에 벨라트릭스가 볼드모트에게 느끼는 감정을 사랑이라고 생각한다면, 음 그래요 우린 그걸 사랑이라고 부를 수 있죠, 그에게 엄청난 집착(obsession)을 가지고 있으니까요. 삐뚤어진 집착이죠... (very sick obsession).. 그리고 그런 종류의 집착과 모성이 맞붙는 장면을 보여주고 싶었어요. 그들을 사랑하는 것 자체가 당신에게 힘이 되어주는 거죠. 몰리는 그런 모성애의 놀라운 전형이죠. 두 여성이 맞붙을만한 요건이 충분히 성립되죠.


첫번째도 괜찮은 대답인데 두번째만 유명해져서 아쉽다 물론 난 존나 잘난 여자가 집에만 있는건 재앙이라고 생각하지만..



Q. 만약 아서가 5권에서 죽었다면 내용이 어떻게 바뀌었을까요?

-전개가 굉장히 달라졌겠죠? 그게 아서를 살려 둔 이유인데요.. 론이 "반쪽 해리"가 되는거죠, 무슨말이냐면 론이 부모 중 한 명을 잃은 고통을 겪게 되는 거예요. 위즐리네가 더이상 해리의 피난처(refuge)같은 존재가 아닌듯한 전개로 가 보려고 했는데, 그러려면 필연적으로 론의 유머감각을 없애버리게 되는 것이었죠. 그게 제가 아서를 죽이지 않은 이유예요. 전 요령있고 재치있는 론 캐릭터를 그대로 끌고 가고 싶었어요.. 론의 유머감각은 그의 무감각(insensitivity)한 면과 미성숙한 면에서 기인하는 거예요. 그리고 론은, 최종적으론, 보셨듯이, 이 책에서 성장하죠! 제가 성년을 생각할 때, 론은 삼총사 중 가장 늦게 성인이 되는 캐릭터였어요. 그리고 그가 호크룩스를 파괴할 때.. 그것들에 맞서면서요. 그게 이유예요. 


아서를 죽이지 않은 다른 이유가 있다면, 음 전 full circle이 되길 바랬거든요. 우리는 고아인 주인공과 함께 스토리를 시작했어요, 전쟁때문에 부모를 잃은 아이죠.. 그리고 그걸 다시 보여주고 싶었어요... 당신이 테디를 보지 않더라도 말이죠, 에필로그에서 표현하고 싶었거든요. 그는 해리보다 더 좋은 대부를 가졌죠, 시리우스는 결점이 있었으니깐.. 제 생각에 우린 그걸 인정해야해요. 그는 대부가 되기엔 좀 위험한 인물이예요. 테디는 who really has been there 한 사람을(부모를 잃었던?) 가졌고, 그리고 해리는 테디를 자기 자식들과 테디에게 좋은 아버지가 될 수 있는 사람이 되었죠.. 루핀과 통스를 절대 가벼운 맘으로 죽인 건 아니예요. 전 캐릭터로서의 그들을 사랑했답니다... 정말 마음 아프지만 죽여야했죠.


+)염병..ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ 부활의 돌 돌렸을때 제-릴-시-리무 나와있긴 했었지 친세대에서 제일 좋아하는 네 명 조합이고 해리에게도 소중한 사람들인데 꼭 전쟁고아로 시작해서 전쟁고아를 보여줄 필요가 있을까 흑흑ㅎ긓ㄱ  




Q. 사랑의 힘을 그렇게나 믿는 덤블도어가, 본인 스스로는 사랑을 한 적이 있었나요?

-사실을 말하자면, 전 언제나 덤블도어가 게이라고 생각해 왔답니다. (박수) 덤블도어는 그린델왈드와 사랑에 빠졌었죠, 그리고 그 사실이, 그린델왈드가 그가 어떤 사람인지 드러냈을때 덤블도어에게 엄청난 공포를 안겨줬구요. 더 말하자면, 우리가 덤블도어를 조금 더 excused 할 수 있을까요, 왜냐면 사랑에 빠진다는것은 우리 눈을 멀게 만드니까요? 하지만, 그는 그만큼이나 brilliant한 사람을 만났고, 벨라트릭스처럼,  그 brilliant한 사람에 빠져들고 만 것이죠. 그리고 끔찍하게도, 절망적이게도, 그에 의해 절망하게 되었고요. 그게 제가 늘 보고있었던 덤블도어의 모습이랍니다. 사실, 최근에 영화 6편의 대본을 보았는데, 그 대본에서 덤블도어가 해리에게 하는 대사 중 이런 말이 있어요.. "옛날에 한 소녀를 알았었다, 그녀의 머리칼은.."(웃음) 여백에 짧은 주석을 달고 대본가에게 건넸죠. "덤블도어는 게이입니다" (웃음) "이 사실이 당신을 이렇게 행복하게 만들 줄 알았더라면, 수년전에 공지했을 텐데요!" 


-이제 차후 10년동안 할 일이 생겼군요....오 세상에, 팬픽이요 그쵸?




Q. 론이 파셀통그를 할 줄 안다면, 파셀텅은 배워서 할 수 있는 말인건가요? 아니면 타고 나야하는건가요?

-배워서 할 수 있는 말이 아니예요. 아주 적은 수의 사람들이 말할 수 있는데, 그들이 당신을 가르치려고 할까요? 슬리데린 혈통으로 타고내려오는 아주 희귀하고 이상한 재능이죠. 하지만 론은, 해리가 파셀통을 한 단어를 말할때 함께 있었고, 저는 모르니까 따라할 수는 없지만, 쨌든 론은 해리가 "열어"라고 하는 말을 들었고 그 소릴 따라할 수 있었던 거예요. 한 단어잖아요. 그가 뱀의 말을 할 수 있냐 없냐는 또 다른 문제이죠. 전 론이 파셀텅을 할 수 있었다고 생각하지 않아요. 하지만 그는 그 필요한 한 단어를 따라할만큼은 충분히 알고있었고, 충분히 똑똑했죠. 



전나 번역은 하는데 내가 먼 말을 지껄이고 있는지 모르겟다 번역 왜하고있지..?




Q. 비밀의 방에서 해리가 바실리스크에게 물렸을 때, 왜 그가 호크룩스였다면 그게 파괴되지 않은거죠?

-그 질문 많이 받았어요. 해리에게 폭스가 있었다는건 엄청난 행운인거죠. 그가 복구 불가능할 정도로 다치기 전에 (그게 호크룩스를 파괴하기 위한 필요조건이니까요)

해리는 치유되었죠. 어쨌든, 전 두 번째로 바실리스크 이로 호크룩스를 찌를때, 폭스가 주변에 없도록 확실히 했죠. 그래서 독이 확실히 제 할일을 했고 짧은 시간에 손을 쓸 수 없었으니까..  책 초반에 써두었지만, 헤르미온느는 치유방법이 없는 아주 강력한 것을 사용해서 호크룩스를 파괴해야한다고 말해요. 하지만 바실리스크의 독에는 치유법이 있고, 물론 나중에 컵을 파괴할 때 즉각적으로 투여될 수 있었죠. 해리에겐 폭스가 있었어요, 그게 제 대답이죠. 사람들이 굉장히 오랫동안 토론해왔던 주제에 대해서 대답할 기회를 주셔서 감사해요.





Q. 연령대가 좀 높은 독자들의 대부분은 대부분 수년간, 데스이터들과 30~40년대의 나치간의 비슷한 점을 인지해왔어요. 이 역사적 시대를 볼드모트의 통치 모델로 사용한건가요? 후세대에게 교훈을 주자면 그 내용은 무엇일까요?

-의식적인 것이었어요(It was conscious). 아마 대부분의 우리는, 가장 악했던 정권이 무엇이냐는 질문을 받으면 나치 독일을 떠올릴테니까요. 이데올로기에 패러렐이 존재하죠. 해리가 우리 (머글) 세계를 떠나면, 마법 세계에서 정확히 똑같은(exactly same) 문제에 직면하길 바랬어요. 여기엔 hierarchy를 도입하는 의도가 있죠, 편협함(bigotry)이 존재하고요, 그리고 "순수성"(purity)이란 관념을 보세요. 엄청난 오류(fallacy)잖아요. 하지만 전 세계를 쪼개놓는 워딩이죠. 사람들은 그들 스스로가 우월하다고 생각하고, 만약 그들이 "순수성"말고 스스로를 자랑스러워 할 요소가 아무것도 없을때.. 그들은 그들이 우월(superior)하다고 느낀단 말이예요. 그러니까 네, 패러렐이죠. exclusively한 건 아니지만요. 마법부가 심지어 함락당하기 전부터도, 정권의 패러렐이 존재하죠 우리 모두 알고있고 사랑하는..(웃음과 박수) 어떤 교훈이냐고 묻는다면, 제 생각에. 포터 시리즈는 "관용"(tolerance)에 대하여 이제껏 오랜 시간동안 이루어졌던 주장이예요. 편협성(bigotry)을 종식시키기 위해 오랫동안 이루어졌던 간청(plea)인 셈이죠. 그리고 제 생각에, 그 점이 어떤 사람들이 이 책을 별로 좋아하지 않는 이유가 된다고 생각해요. 하지만 이 책의 메시지는 어린 세대에게 건강한 것이라고 생각해요. 권위에 의문을 가져야 한다는 것과, 기득권층이나 그 어떤 압력이 당신에게 진실만을 말할것이란 가정을 하면 안된다는 것. 말예요.

(큰 박수)



이건 원문 바로 밑에 살려둠


Q: Many of us older readers have noticed over the years similarities between the Death Eaters tactics and the Nazis from the 30s and 40s. Did you use that historical era as a model for Voldemort’s reign and what were the lessons that you hope to impart to the next generation?

 

It was conscious. I think that if you’re, I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime we would think Nazi Germany. There were parallels in the ideology. I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the wizarding world. So you have the intent to impose a hierarchy, you have bigotry, and this notion of purity, which is this great fallacy, but it crops up all over the world. People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves in nothing else they can pride themselves on perceived purity. So yeah that follows a parallel. It wasn’t really exclusively that. 


I think you can see in the Ministry even before it’s taken over, there are parallels to regimes we all know and love. [Laughter and applause.] So you ask what lessons, I suppose. The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think ti’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that’s it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

 

[Loud applause.]





Q. 말포이는 해리에게 빚을 진 건가요?

 JKR: 아주 중요한 질문이고 많은 사람들이 알고 싶어하는 질문이겠네요. 덤블도어가 해리에게 말했을 때, "볼드모트는 너에게 빚을 진 사람을 자기 심복으로 두려 하지 않을것이다" 란 그 말이요, 전 딱히 거기에 마법적인 요소(magical bond)를 부여했던 것은 아닌데요. 그건 오히려 덤블도어의 엄청난 지혜와, 인간 본성에 대한 지식에 가깝죠. 그는 알았던 거예요. 해리가 나중에 7권에서  생각하게 되는것을... 그는 페티그루가 해리의 목숨을 구하기 위해, 어떤 특정한 방식으로 행동할것을 알고있었어요. 페티그루는 약하죠, 본질적으로 약한 사람이에요. 페티그루는 아주-약한 캐릭터예요. 그는 제가 좋아하는 유형이 아니죠. 그는 약하고, 자기보다 강한 사람들에게 끌려요. 덤블도어가 옳았죠. 페티그루는 충동적으로 자비심을 가졌고요..(impulsive mercy).. 말포이가 해리에게 빚을 진걸까요? 제 생각에 해리가 말포이에게 지울 수 있는 가장 끔찍한 짐은, 이것이겠죠. 말포이가 그 어떤 감사함을 느껴야 한다는 것이요. 그래서 에필로그에서 slightly하게 보여주려고 했어요. 그들이 서로를 슬쩍 보는 그 장면이요. "안녕, 너무 쪽팔린다(embarassing), 네가 내 목숨을 구하다니 말이야. 아무도 내가 그 사실을 잊지 못하도록 하겠지." 제 생각에, 그가 빚을 진것이냐면, 아마 아닐거예요. 말포이는 예전의 그보다는 좀 더 나은 사람이 되었을 것 같네요.. 하지만 그가 정말로 좋은 사람이 되었을것이라고 기대할 순 없어요.



왠지 나 이 인터뷰 전문 읽고 번역도 했던 것 같은데 좀 뻘짓같은데....


 


Q. 해리는 가끔 부모님이 돌아가시기 전에 어떤 삶을 살았었는지 궁금해해요. 릴리, 제임스, 리무스, 시리우스는 호그와트 졸업 이후 무엇을 했나요?

JKR: 리무스 먼저. 리무스는 취직을 할 수 없었어요. 가엾은 루핀, 덤블도어가 그를 거두기 전까지, 굉장히 가난한 삶을 살았죠.. 아무도 늑대인간을 고용하려 하지 않았으니까요. 나머지 세 명은 불사조 기사단의 풀타임 멤버였답니다. 릴리와 제임스와 친구들이 학교에 있을때, 1차 전쟁이 시작되었죠... 2차 전쟁이 고조되었던 만큼은 아니었어요. 마법부가 관여되지 않았었거든요.. 하지만 어쨌든 굉장히 암울한 시기였죠. 똑같은 실종들, 똑같은 죽음들.. 그들은 학교를 떠났죠, 그게 그들이 한 것이에요. 제임스에겐 돈이 있었고, 시리우스와 릴리를 서포트할 수 있었어요. 그들은 사유재산으로 살았을 거예요. 하지만 그들은 풀타임 파이터였죠, 릴리가 해리를 임신하기 전까지 그랬답니다. 이후에는 숨어야했죠..




Q.해그리드는 결혼하여 자식을 두었나요?

JKR: 오, 해그리드가 결혼해서 자식을 둔다구요??? 아니요. 아, 당신 얼굴을 보니까 마음을 바꿔야겠네요. 네! 해그리드의 아이는 스물 두명이랍니다! --아니 아니예요, 해그리드는 절대 결혼하지 않았고, 아이도 없었어요.  미안해요, 정말 미안해요. 아..기분이 정말 안좋아지네요. 다른 책을 쓸게요!(박수) 현실적으로, 해그리드의 여친이 될만한 사람들은 정말 제한되어있잖아요. 거인들은 서로를 죽이잖아요, 여자 거인의 숫자는 굉장히 적고.. 그는 딱 한명 만났잖아요.. 그리고 좀 두렵지만, 그녀는 그를 좀 귀엽다고 생각했지만, 뭐라고 해야할까... 그녀는 해그리드보다 더 섬세했거든요. 해그리드에게 축복을.. 살려뒀잖아요, 제발요!

 




Q. snape의 초상화는 교장실에 걸렸나요?

JKR: 왜 초상화가 즉시 보이지 않냐고 몇몇 사람들이 질문하더군요. 아녜요. 이유는, 성 자체에 perception이 존재하기 때문이예요. 성 안의 모든 사람들이, 왜냐하면 그가 자기 비밀을 정말 잘 감추었고, 그의 직책을 버리고 가기도 했으니까요. 교장실에 걸려있는 모든 초상화들은, 모두 사망한 headmasters 와 mistresses들이고, 이건 꼭 영국 왕실같죠. 사무실에서 사망하면, 좋은 press를 얻는거예요. 중간 퇴직은 허용되지 않아요. 특히 당신이 결혼하거나 미국인이라면요. 농담이예요!(웃음) 논제에서 벗어났네요. 저한텐 굉장히 중요한 일인데요, 전 알고있으니까요. 해리는 S의 초상화를, 벽에 걸어야 한다고 주장했을거란걸요. 덤블도어 바로 옆에 말이죠. (박수) 해리가 그에게 말을 걸러 갔을까 하는 여부는, 제 생각엔, 글쎄요 확신할 수 없네요. S는, 저는 제가 책을 완결내자마자 ??? 했는데요. 그리고 팬사이트에 들어갔죠. 웹사이트에 올릴 질문들을 찾아보려구요. 그리고 전 정말 감동받았답니다.. 사람들이 메시지 보드에서 아직도 S에 대해서 논쟁하는 걸 봤거든요. 책은 나왔고, 아직도 그가 좋은 사람인지에 대해 아직도 논쟁중인거예요. 하지만 그 사실은 정말 저에게 놀라운 일인데요, 왜냐면 S는 좋은 사람인가 아닌가? 하는 질문을 한다면, 많은 측면에서 그는 정말로 좋은 사람이 아니니까요. 그러니까 전, "그가 좋은 사람이라고" 말할때마다 매번 여러분을 의도적으로 오해시켜온 게 아니예요. 왜냐면 그가 사랑을 했고 그 사랑이 정말 깊었고 그가 정말 용감했다 하더라도 둘 다 제가 admire하는 성품들이죠(사랑/용기), 그는 bitter 했고 vindictive했으니까요. 하지만 맞아요, 최후의 순간에는 그는, 일종의 평화를 달성했고, 전 그것을 에필로그에서 풀고 싶었어요.


(The book was out, and they were still arguing whether Snape was a good guy But that was really wonderful to me, because there’s a question there, was Snape a good guy or not? In many ways he really wasn’t. So I haven’t been deliberately misleading everyone all this time, when I say that he’s a good guy. Because even though he did love and he loved very deeply and he was very brave, both qualities that I admire above anything else. He was bitter and he was vindictive… but right at the very very end, he did, as your question acknowledges, acheive a kind of peace together and I tried to show that in the epilogue.) 

 

 







 



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Tonight, the one thousand grand prize winners (and their guests) of the Scholastic’s Open Book Tour Sweepstakes along with a companion got the chance to see Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling read from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” answer questions and sign books at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. We have exclusive information this evening on the myriad of “Deathly Hallows” questions she answered as well as in-depth details on a number of subjects she spoke about.

 

A caution now. Parts of the following WILL contain book seven SPOILERS.

 

First, the biggest revelation of the night came when Jo revealed to her audience the fact that Albus Dumbledore is gay and had fallen in love with fellow wizard and friend, Gellert Grindelwald. This elicited a huge reaction and prolonged ovation. So much so, it promoted Jo to say:

 

If I had known this would have made you this happy, I would have announced it years ago.”

 

The question was: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

 

JKR: My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair… [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!” [laughter] “If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!”

 

Jo also said after revelation: “You needed something to keep you going for the next 10 years! …Oh, my god, the fan fiction now, eh?”

 

Jo also revealed that Neville Longbottom married Hufflepuff Hannah Abbott and she was to become the landlady at the iconic Leaky Cauldron Pub. She thought that people would find the fact of Neville’s living over a pub particularly cool.

 

Equally large revelations were made concerning Petunia Dursley when Jo answered the question of what Petunia could not bring herself to say when Harry and the Dursleys parted ways before his seventeenth birthday. She would have wished him luck, saying:

 

I do know what you’re up against and I hope it’s okay.”

 

Information on the original Order members was also revealed during tonight’s event. Jo related the fact that Remus Lupin, prior to the third book, was unemployable because he was a werewolf and upon his graduation from Hogwarts along with James and Lily, was supported by James using their own money. In addition to this she shed more light on the early days of the Order, saying James, Sirius, Remus and Lily were full time Order members. “Full Time Fighters,” as Jo put it.

 

Jo also went into further detail about the many portraits in the wizarding world and their occupants. An occupant can only move freely to other portraits in their dwelling or to another portrait in which they are depicted. She also revealed that Harry himself made sure that the portrait of Snape made it into the Headmasters Office, but doubts that he ever went to speak to it.

 

Life debts were another subject discussed during tonight’s question and answer session. It was revealed that Draco Malfoy does not owe Harry a life debt. While speaking briefly on the Elder wand, Jo did not detail the the core of this extraordinary wand. Hagrid never married and James and Lily went into hiding shortly after she first became pregnant with Harry.

 

Finally, speaking about her personal feelings and experiences of the past seventeen years with the boy wizard, Jo said finishing the first book and the seventh book produced very similar feelings. She also admits that she was very difficult to live with for the weeks following her completing the last book in the “Harry Potter” series.

 

A full transcript of this evening’s event will be available on TLC soon. TLC will update throughout the evening with the latest from this event.

 

Some highlights have been transcribed:

 

Q: Did Neville ever find love?

 

Of course. … To make him extra cool he marries the woman who becomes, eventually, the new landlady at The Leaky Cauldron, which I think would make him very cool among the students, that he lives above the pub. He marries Hannah Abbott.

 

How did you decide that Molly Weasley would be the one to finish off Bellatrix?

 

I always knew Molly was going to finish her off. I think there was some speculation that Neville would do it, because Neville obviously has a particular reason to hate Bellatrix. ..So there were lots of optios for Blelatrix, but I never deviated. I wanted it to be Molly, and I wanted it to be Molly for two reasons.

 

The first reason was I always saw Molly as a very good witch but someone whose light is necessarily hidden under a bushel, because she isn’t in the kitchen a lot and she has had to raise, among others, and george which is like, enough… I wanted Molly to have her moment and to show that because a woman had dedicated herself to her family does not mean that she doesn’t have a lot of other talents.

 

Second reason: It was the meeting of two kinds of – if you call what Bellatrix feels for Voldemort love, I guess we’ll call it love, she has a kind of obsession with him, it’s a very sick obsession … and I wanted to match that kind of obsession with maternal love… the power that you give someone by loving them. So Molly was really an amazing exemplar of maternal love. … There was something very satisfying about putting those two women together.

 

How different would the last two books be if Arthur had been killed in the middle of book five?

 

I think they would have been very different and it’s part of the reason why I chose my mind. … By turning Ron into half of Harry, in other words by turning Ron into someone who had suffered the loss of a parent, I was going to remove the Weasleys as a refuge for Harry and I was going to necessarily remove a lot of Ron’s humor. That’s part of the reason why I didn’t kill Arthru. I wanted to keep Ron in tact … a lot of Ron’s humor comes from his insensitivity and his immaturity, to be honest about Ron. And Ron finally, I think, you see, grows up in this book. He’s the last of the three to reach what I consider adulthood, and he does it then [ when he destroys the horcrux] and faces those things. So that’s part of the reason. The only other reason I didn’t kill Arthur was that I wanted to come full circle. We started with an orphan, someone who lost their parents because of the war. ANd so I wanted to show it again. … Even though you don’t see Teddy, I wanted to express in the epilogue, that he gets an even better godfather than Harry had, because Sirius had ihs faults, I think we must admit. He was a risky guy to have a s a godfather. Because Teddy gets someone who really has been there, and Harry becomes a really great father figure for Teddy as well as his own children. I hasten to add that I didn’t kill Lupin or Tonks lightly. I loved them as characters…so that hurt, killing them.

 

Q: In the Goblet of Fire Dumbledore said his brother was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was practicing on that goat?

 

JKR: How old are you?

 

Eight.

 

JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to keep clean [laughter], curly horns. That’s a joke that works on a couple of levels. I really like Aberforth and his goats. But you know Aberforth having this strange fondness for goats if you’ve read book seven, came in really useful to Harry, later on, because a goat, a stag, you know. If you’re a stupid Death Eater, what’s the difference. So, that is my answer to YOU.

 

[loud applause]

 

Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

 

My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that’s how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair… [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!” [laughter] If I’d known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!

 

Q: Since Ron is able to speak Parseltongue in the last book, does that mean that parseltongue is a language that most witches and wizards can learn or must a person be born with some ability to speak Parseltongue.

 

JKR: I don’t see it really as a language you can learn. So few people speak it that who would teach you? This is a weird ability passed down through the Slytherin blood line. However ROn was with Harry when he said one word in Parseltongue, which I do not know so I cannot duplicate for you, but he heard him say “Open,” and he was able to reproduce the sound. So it was one word. Whether he could learn to speak to snakes properly is a separate issue. I don’t think he could. But he knew enough, he was smart enough, to duplicate one necessary sound.

 

Q: [Speaker thanks Jo for the Dumbledore answer.]

 

JKR: You needed something to keep you going for the next 10 years! Oh, my god, the fan fiction now, eh? [Applause.]

 

Q: What did Dumbledore write in the letter to make the Dursleys take Harry?

 

JKR: Very, very good question. As you know, as we find out in book seven, Petunia once really wanted to be part of that world. And you discover that Dumbledore has written to her prior to the Howler…Dumbledore wrote to her very kindly and explained why he couldn’t let her come to Hogwarts to become a witch. So, Petunia, much as she denis it afterwards, much as she turns against that world when she met Uncle Vernon, who is the biggest anti-wizard you could ever met in your life, a tiny part of her, and that’s the part that almost wished Harry luck when she said goodbye to him in this book, she just teetered on the verge of saying, I do know what you’re up against and I hope it’s OK. But she couldn’t bring herself to say it. Years of pretending she doesn’t care have hardened her. But Dumbledore appealed in the letter you’re asking about, so that part of Petunia that did remember wanting desperately to be part of the world and he appealed to her sense of fair play to a sister that she had hated because Lily had what she couldn’t have. So that’s how she persuaded Petunia to keep Harry. Good question.

 

Q: When Harry was stabbed by a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, since he was a Horcrux shouldn’t it have been destroyed then?

 

JKR: I have been asked that a lot. Harry was exceptionally fortunate in that he had Fawkes. So before he could be destroyed without repair, which is what is necessary to destroy a horcrux, he was mended. However, I made sure that Fawkes wasn’t around the second time a Horcrux got stabbed by a basilisk fang, so the poison did its work and it was irreparable within a short period of time…. I established early in the book, Hermione says that you destroy a Horcrux by using something so powerful that there’s no remedy. But she does say there is a remedy for basilisk poison but of course it has to be administered immediately and when they stab the cup later – boy I’m really blowing this for anyone who hasn’t finished the book – there’s Fawkes, is my answer. And thank you for giving me a chance to say that because people have argued that quite a lot.

 

Q: Why couldn’t Harry speak to a portrait of Dumbledore throughout the last book>

 

Well there are two reasons, three reasons actually… Teh last bit, why did he have to decode? As Dumbledore says to Harry…to tell Harry about the Hallows was to tempt him. And Harry, throughout all seven books has been incredibly impetuous and reckless. That’s one of Harry’s biggest flaws. He does tend to act without thinking, and Dumbledore knows this about Harry. He wants him to work it out slowly enough to gain wisdom along the way. That’s why he passed the information through Hermione, who is the most cautious person in the books, as you know. And Dumbledore says explicitly, so your good heat isn’t overcome by your hot heads. Or I may have paraphrased myself slight there so forgive me. “She doesn’t even know her own book!” [laughter] Yes so that’s one reason. Harry needs to decode. He said, he does say in this book, he’s frightened by his decision not to race for the wand, because he had never chosen not to act. So that’s Harry’s real big coming of age moment, that he’s decided to hold back for the first time very in his life. So the other two reasons that i have for him not t speak to Dumbledore’s portrait, first of all, I crated a lot of rules for this world and then later had to navigate my away around them. But this rule was always good, and the rule was that portraits could only move between portraits in the same building. so if I’m in a picture and you’re in a picture and we’re both in Carnegie Hall, then we can move into each other’s pictures. Otherwise we can only move only to other places where we have a portrait. You can’t just move willy nilly through all the – the Louvre, the Met – you can’t do a world tour, as a picture person. You are limited by geography. So there was that reason. And then lastly of course, the third reason, is it really would be too easy and I wouldn’t have had a plot.

 

Q: Many of us older readers have noticed over the years similarities between the Death Eaters tactics and the Nazis from the 30s and 40s. Did you use that historical era as a model for Voldemort’s reign and what were the lessons that you hope to impart to the next generation?

 

It was conscious. I think that if you’re, I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime we would think Nazi Germany. There were parallels in the ideology. I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the wizarding world. So you have the intent to impose a hierarchy, you have bigotry, and this notion of purity, which is this great fallacy, but it crops up all over the world. People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves in nothing else they can pride themselves on perceived purity. So yeah that follows a parallel. It wasn’t really exclusively that. I think you can see in the Ministry even before it’s taken over, there are parallels to regimes we all know and love. [Laughter and applause.] So you ask what lessons, I suppose. The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think ti’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that’s it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

 

[Loud applause.]

 

Q: What did it feel like completing your first Harry Potter book versus completing the last.

 

JKR: What a great question. It felt strangely similar actually. Both feelings were more alike than with any of the other books. When I finished the first book, there was this incredible sense of achievement that i’d actually written a novel, i”d actually finished my book. And it was after seven years of writing and making notes and rewriting. And then when I finished the seventh book, that was 17 years. WIth the seventh book there was a huge feeling of loss as well. I couldn’t believe I was done. And it took me weeks, as my poor, long-suffering husband will attest. He’s here. [applause] Yes, you should clap him, he’s very patient! [ovation] He’s not the type to stand up and take about but trust me. Toward the end of a book i’m not that easy to live with. Yes Neil would bear witness to the fact that for weeks, really… it felt like a bereavement. I knew it was coming. I was prepared, I knew it would hurt, and it was huge. So, that’s why I’m glad to be here and talk about it. Thank you.

 

Voice: Excuse me, Ms. Rowling?

 

JKR: Hello.

 

Voice: I have a question.

 

JKR: God? [laughter] And they say I don’t believe in you! [Ovation.]

 

Voice: May I approach teh stage?

 

JKR: Sorry, I missed that, what was that? You may approach the stage, I always wondered what oyu looked like.

 

Announcer: Actually I don’t have a question but I do have a little surprise. [Explains that they’ve picked some more questions from competition winners, randomly chosen to surprise sweepstakes winners.]

 

Q: Does Malfoy owe Harry a debt?

 

JKR: That’s a great question and a lot of people wanted to know that. When Dumbledore said to Harry, Voldemort won’t want a close associate who is in your debt, I wasn’t implying by that there was any kind of magical bond there. It was more that Dumbldore’s extensive wisdom and knowledge of human nature, he knew as Harry later thinks in book seven, he knew that Pettigrew would react a certain way to having saved his life. … He’s weak, fundamentally weak. Pettigrew is a very weak character. He’s not someone I like at all. He’s a weak person and he likes to gravitate to people who are stronger. Dumbledore is right. Pettigrew had an impulsive mercy… would Malfoy e in Harry’s debt? I think the very worst burden Harry could have put Malfoy under was this one, that Malfoy has to feel any kind of gratitude. So I tried to show that slightly in the epilogue when they look slightly at each other and there’s a, “Hi. It’s so embarrassing, you saved my life. No one will ever let me forget it.” I think, does he owe him a debt, probably not. I think Malfoy would go back to being an improved version of what he was but we shouldn’t expect him to be a really great guy any time soon.

 

Q: Harry often wondered about his parents lives before he died. What did Lily, James, Remus, Lupin and Sirius do after Hogwarts?

 

JKR: To take Remus first, Remus was unemployable. Poor Lupin, prior to Dumbledore taking him in, lead a really impoverished life because no one wanted to employ a werewolf. The other three were full-time members of the Order of the Phoenix. If you remember when Lily, James and co. were at school, the first war was raging. It never reached the heights that the second war reached, because the Ministry was never infiltrated to that extend but it was a very bad time, the same disappearances, the same deaths. So that’s what they did, they left school. James has gold, enough to support Sirius and Lily. So I suppose they lived foff a private income. But they were full-time fighters, that’s what they did, until Lily fell pregnant with Harry. So then they went into hiding.

 

Q: Did Hagrid ever get married and have children?

 

[Aww from crowd] JKR: Oh, did Hagrid ever get married and have children? No. [awwws again] I may change that immediately due to the look on your face. Yes! He had 22! – No, no, Hagrid never did marry and have children. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. Oh I feel terrible now. I’ll write another book! [Ovation] Realistically, Hagrid’s pool of potential girlfriends is extremely limited. Because with the giants killing each other off, the number of giantesses around is infinitesimal and he met one of the only, and I’m afraid, she thought he was kind of cute, but she was a little more, how should I put it, sophisticated than Hagrid. So no, bless him. [Awws] I kept him alive, come on! [Applause.]

 

Q: Is Severus Snape’s portrait in the headmaster’s office?

 

JKR: Some have been asking why hasn’t the portrait appeared immediately. It doesn’t. The reason is that the perception in the castle itself and everyone who was in the castle, because Snape kept his secret so well was that he abandoned his post. So all the portraits you see in the headmaster’s study are all headmasters and mistresses who died, it’s like British royals. You only get good press if you die in office. Abdication is not acceptable, particularly if you marry and American. I’m kidding! [laughter] I digress. I know, because I thought this one through, because it was very important to me, I know Harry would have insisted that Snape’s portrait was on that wall, right beside Dumbledore’s. [Applause.] As for whether Harry would go back to talk to him, I think, I’m not sure he would have done. Snape, I was really [?] the week after I finished the book. And I went to a chat room – not a chat room, what am I talking about? [laughter] I never go in chat rooms. I went onto a fan site because I was looking for questions to put up on my Web site, which is sometimes difficult. And I was so heartened to see that people on the message boards that people were still arguing about Snape. The book was out, and they were still arguing whether Snape was a good guy But that was really wonderful to me, because there’s a question there, was Snape a good guy or not? In many ways he really wasn’t. SoI haven’t been deliberately misleading everyone all this time, when I say that he’s a good guy. Because even though he did love and he loved very deeply and he was very brave, both qualities that I admire above anything else. He was bitter and he was vindictive… but right at the very very end, he did, as your question acknowledges, acheive a kind of peace together and I tried to show that in the epilogue.