Torn page, ambush flavoured LOLLIPOPS, Avery

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 34938

Tabouli wrote (about the torn page):

> 
> Yeah, it did seem out of character for the usually stringently law-
>abiding teacher-respecting book-revering Hermione.  I file this 
>under "slightly dubious plot devices", because after all, Harry 
>*needed* to find that page in her hand, didn't he?  Couldn't 
>Hermione have taken notes on a separate piece of paper to be found 
>instead?

I hope no one has mentioned this already, but I figure Hermione is 
free to deface any book in the library because she is quite adept at 
repairing things with magic.  Let's see.  She repaired broken glass 
and Harry's glasses (I think).  Replacing a page in a book ought to 
be child's play, right?

Tabouli again (about the ambush):
 
> WHAT?  (Tabouli sits up indignantly).  HUH!!  This is a gross 
libel!  Just yesterday in my message "Filch/Mrs Norris (FLIRTIAC) & 
still more LOLLIPOPS" I specifically sang a soothing sea shanty at 
you (Cindy) and wrote a Personalised LOLLIPOPS-friendly Ambush 
Scenario!  

<Cindy bolts upright, scrambles around in day-old messages>

Yes, yes.  I do seem to have your chart here, Tabouli.  Yes, a 
history of LOLLIPOPS, an agreeable tendency to accommodate other 
reasonable theories.  Yes, everything seems to be in order.

Sorry 'bout that, mate.  I think I have developed something of a 
crush on George, mostly because he doesn't seem to want me and 
therefore is a challenge.  :-)  OK, so that's a total of four Ambush 
believers out of . . . 3700+ members.  Well, it's a start.

Elkins wrote (about the constraints of sticking to canon):

> (But I do find myself now wondering if I can really legitimately 
> respond to that last "Let Us Now Praise Minor Characters" Avery-
Works-
> For-the-Ministry-of-Magic post as I would like to, or if it needs 
to 
> be taken to OT-Chatter.)
> 
> <blinks>
> 
> Hey, wait a minute!  Cindy, aren't you a List Elf?
> 

Oh, you want me to speak as a List Elf instead of a Spinner Of Wobbly 
Theories?

::peels off trousers, pours self into over-sized oven mitt, squints 
menacingly::

Uh, I believe that official list policy requires all discussion on 
the main list to be based on the Harry Potter books and statements of 
JKR.  

Based on that crystal-clear standard, yeah, sure have a romp with 
Avery, so long as you make sure you agree with everything I said and 
labor to make the Avery theory even more compelling.

Cindy