The HBP Post, almost totally non-spoilery

[timeripple]

Am still digesting, but have formed a few impressions and have a very few things to say. Starting with: Have a little faith, people! Even the wisest among us (ie, everybody who's not JKR) cannot see all ends. She knows what she's doing, and is fond of misleading her faithful readers in evil, tricksy ways. I sincerely doubt all is as it seems.

And now for the good stuff, my ridiculous, slightly spoilery suspicion that I've been harboring for ages: Some time between GoF and OotP, JKR read DT and was so amused by it that she put tributes in the books. The evidence is only mostly nonexistent: Cassandra Trelawney, when she hardly ever re-uses names. The WWW daydream right out of Passionate Trousers. Also, she secretly ships H/D. You know it to be true!

Comment away, or don't!

ETA: The comments and my replies WILL BE SPOILERY. Ye be warned!

Comments

[olivia-cochrane.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about...whatever DT thing you're talking about. But even if you're right and things are not as they seem, one thing is sure: Dumbledore is not coming back, at least not as he was; as I wrote in my post, he may be a ghost, although I doubt it. You don't write something so final, saying things like "Harry knew Dumbledore had left, left the school, left the world, left Harry" without really meaning it, and there were similar definite statements amounting to 'THIS IS THE END.' So whatever Snape may be up to, if anyone still has the energy to wonder about his allegiance anymore, the bottom line is he killed Dumbledore. It doesn't matter why, even if Harry and everyone are wrong about the reason. He did it, and I don't believe it's reversible in any way. The rest matters not to me, at least not yet.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. Dumbledore's dead, and according to Nick's summary in OOTP, he won't be coming back as a ghost. I am still on the fence about Snape - I have a feeling Harry doesn't have all the information on him yet, and of course at this point we don't know any more than Harry does. All I can say is, the speculation wars are going to be fun!