Salman Rushdie and Stephen King on Harry Potter...

I was poking about a new-to-me book(ish) blog, The Book Bitches (quite wonderful for those with whom it resonates) when I ran across a post on an early Aug. event with JKR in NY. JKR appeared with other lightweight literary figures like Stephen King, John Irving and Salman Rushdie, etc. Apparently, many of the questions were aimed, not surprisingly, at JKR on the past and future of young Master Potter and his brethren.

Ms. Trollop's pining over Sirius, notwithstanding, the part of the post that struck me was "...Salman Rushdie, who offered his theory that Snape and Dumbledore were in cahoots..." That SR *read* HP does not surprise me, that he read it *and* pondered it such as to develop a theory about any aspect of the story *does* surprise me and pleases me to no end. There is hope for the universe, I think.

Personally, I am with Rushdie on this point. They are in cahoots and I do not buy JKR's "Dumbledore is dead" claim...that is, I think he is dead. At the moment. I remain unconvinced that this is a state of being that needs to be static for one such as Dumbledore. We shall see.