Ok, Potter fans: here's a three-part interview with JK Rowling, conducted on July 16 of this year. It's full of highly illuminating material, such as this amusing bit:
ES: Why does Dumbledore allow Peeves to stay in the castle?The remaining two parts are linked; unlike Book Seven, you don't have to wait for them.JKR: Can't get him out.
ES: He's Dumbledore, he can do anything!
JKR: No, no no no no. Peeves is like dry rot. You can try and eradicate it. It comes with the building. You’re stuck. If you've got Peeves you're stuck.
ES: But Peeves answers to Dumbledore -
JKR: Allegedly.
MA: Allegedly?
JKR: Yeah. I see Peeves as like a severe plumbing problem in a very old building, and Dumbledore is slightly better with the spanner than most people, so he can maybe make it function better for a few weeks. Then it’s going to start leaking again. Would you want Peeves gone, honestly?
It really does have a lot of interesting stuff, despite my selection of the Peeves bit. Somewhere in there the interviewers say they started with 66 pages of questions.
Link found in the comments at Washington Monthly.
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