Yeah, I think soem of it IS the hype, but again, that's partly what bugs me. But whatever.

And true, she has contradicted herself a bit, but otherwise she's shown a lot of insight. And really, some of her contradictions I think are more of a matter of her needing to just tell her fans "I never thought much on that." (Like the ages of the Weasley kids - I doubt she ever really thought about it.) Though I would like her to stop with ages in general in that case, since well, her math sucks. (And so does mine. Which is why I'm very careful when playing around with numbers, ages and dates!)