Timeline for What were the W.O.M.B.A.T questions on Rowling's old site?
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| May 20, 2016 at 22:17 | comment | added | ibid | I located the interview in question, and it pretty explicitly states that the answers were never released. (accio-quote.org/articles/2007/1217-pottercast-anelli.html) | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 23:09 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @ibid -- Also, there was a contest for fans, for best W.O.M.B.A.T. score, and there was a winner. I believe the contestants had the multiple choice answers. :) | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 23:06 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @ibid -- IIRC, they were indeed released. In an interview, JKR discusses how quite a few hints toward the end of the series were contained in the W.O.M.B.A.T.s -- more hints than her publishers liked, and they were subsequently taken down from JKR's website to avoid spoilers. There was also the risk that the press, if they got hold of anything from any of the subsequent books, could conceivably subpoena (or try to) the entire work, which would have been disastrous to JKR. As a side note, JKR's husband apparently only got half the questions right, and he was there when she wrote it! :) | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 19:46 | comment | added | ibid | The Lexicon doesn't have the answers. They have their personal commentary. I'm pretty sure the official answers were never released. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 8:15 | history | answered | Slytherincess | CC BY-SA 3.0 |