Canon's already provided us with an explanation for his actions. This is literally telling us a different story, revealing that she kind of...lied?...in the actual book. And she doesn't seem to have trouble telling the story outside the book, so one wonders why she didn't just dramatize it if that's what's supposed to have happened.


Rowling lied contradicted herself about something in the book? Now, that's a shock. :P



It does make me wonder what her impression is of the reaction to the book because it seems like the interview answers I've read have often been about defending the characters and making them more "inherently good."

Honestly? I think Rowling is giving all these interviews and going on and on about her books because that there will no longer be a long wait for the next Harry Potter book; and no longer a need for indepth analysis of the teasing hints and clues she drops in her interviews. In short, there is no longer a reason for anyone to pay attention to her as opposed to say, the actual completed book series. And Ms Rowling misses the attention.