Aggiungo un altra intervista in cui, per quanto ho capito lo scrittore Salman Rushdie chiede con forza se Piton sia buono o cattivo e se Silente è davvero morto...
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JK Rowling a New York - 1 e 2 agosto 2006 (inglese e italiano)
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The third question referenced the old comment about Snape and a redemptive pattern to ask whether Draco could/would redeem himself and whether anyone else would change sides. She didn't address the second part of the question, but in response to the first she said that redemption was not a possibility for all characters (giving Voldemort as an example) but it was for most of her characters. She agrees with Harry that, even given unlimited time, Draco would not have killed Dumbledore. As to what this means for his future, she said we'd have to wait 'til book seven to find out.
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Most of the response about Dumbledore followed a question by famous author Salman Rushdie, who stepped forward to the audience microphone with his son and introduced himself like any other fan. JKR said, "I don't feel this is quite fair," amusedly. "You're better at figuring out plots than most." (That might be a paraphrase.) Rushdie flat-out asked (along with whether Dumbledore was alive) whether Snape was "good" or bad." She did not answer, but said that "your opinion is correct," possibly to his assertion that Snape was intrinsically good (though it was unclear).
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Then a reader brought up Snape. A rather notable reader, as at the microphone now was Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. He spoke of how Severus Snape had always been unlikable, but still one of the good guys. However, now, he seems bad although we don’t really want to believe it, because Snape’s wickedness would indicate that Dumbledore is dead. Finally the question ended in: is Snape good or bad? At this point, JKR, more heartened now that we wasn’t facing an adorable third grader declared forcefully that “Dumbledore is DEFINITELY dead.” She suggested that we all must move through the five stages of grief, but should perhaps stop before anger.
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Ten pages later, Rowling was bombarded with questions not just from the audience, but from her fellow writers as well.
Some of the more tantalising tid-bits she let fall are that although Albus Dumbledore – the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – was murdered in Half-Blood Prince, he would still have an important role in the final book, and furthermore, his killer Severus Snape (whose role is assayed by Alan Rickman in the Harry Potter films) is actually a good character.
The latter bit, which had been a topic of much debate and speculation among Potter fans, was first voiced at the concert by author Salman Rushdie, who offered his theory that Snape and Dumbledore were in cahoots (over the latter’s murder) and that Dumbledore’s death was a hoax.
“In my opinion, Snape is good”, he declared.
Rowling’s answer: “And your opinion is right, but I feel I need to make one thing clear about Dumbledore: he is dead.”...............................
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Lo scrittore Salman Rushdie, anche lui presente alla serata con suo figlio, ha chiesto a JKR se Piton è buono o cattivo. La domanda è stata posta al termine dell'esposizione di una lunga e dettagliata teoria elaborata da Rushdie su questo personaggio. La risposta di JKR è stata "La Sua opinione è corretta". Peccato che nessuno abbia capito quale fosse esattamente l'opinione di Rushdie...
)… e, quindi, non ci resta che tenere d'occhio questo personaggio, dice Fry. La Rowling tenta un debole depistaggio, avvertendo che non bisogna pensare che Snape sia troppo "nice" (bello, positivo) come personaggio… ma alla fine ammette che, sì, è un personaggio che vale la pena tener d'occhio, con questo ammettendo che c'è molto di più, in lui, di ciò che appare a prima vista. Che, del resto, è una delle prime cose che ha detto su di lui fin dalle prime interviste, quando ancora la saga di HP non mieteva tutto il successo poi ottenuto. Ancora non le riesce di mentire troppo bene su Snape, del resto, ancora il personaggio non aveva preso il volo…
