Red Flags, Red Herrings

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 19154

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Joywitch wrote:
> 
> >But have there been any red herrings so far, i.e. items mentioned 
> briefly that 
> >later turned out to be UNimportant?  I cant think of any.  Anybody 
> >have any evidence one way or another (of course, it may be too 
early 
> >in the series to tell.)
> 
> None of these is conclusively a red herring (rather than a red flag) 
> because the series isn't done, and all are subjective of course, but 
> here are a few things I thought along the way that turned out to be 
> wrong (so far).  All arise from various clues which turn out to be 
red 
> herrings:
> 
> -"Lupin is helping Sirius" (all that dropping stuff whenever his 
name 
> comes up, plus RL's generally mysterious behavior)
> 
> -"Sirius is trying to kill Harry" 
> 
> -"Bagman put Harry's name in the Goblet" (just one of the many wrong 
> theories I developed along the way)
> 
> -"Fred and George are scheming something that has to do with the 
> Goblet/Tournament"
> 
> -"Snape is trying to kill Harry" in PS/SS
> 
> -"Percy is up to something suspicious" in CS (holed up in his room 
at 
> the Burrow, e.g.)
> 
> more obviously:
> 
> -"Draco opened the Chamber of Secrets" (disproved early on, but 
still, 
> it was a possibility)
> 
> ditto for 
> 
> -"Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets"
> 
> Amy Z
> 
I think that all of the so-called red herrings lasted only within 
the story of each book.  All were resolved in the same story.  There 
are no proven red herrings that have lasted beyond the volume in which 
they were introduced, even those cited for PS/SS, the first book.  I 
will take the great leap of deduction to say that those NOT so 
disproved are red flags, and point to something to be seen in future 
books.

Haggridd