MAGIC DISHWASHER

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39820

Amanda Geist wrote:
> Grey Wolf, humor me, for I have little time and am genuinely curious.
> I think Snape in the Shrieking Shack and at the end of PoA was 100%
> on the surface real, no acting involved. Are you really saying that
> he was putting on an act? That he already knew Sirius was innocent
> and still behaved the way he did?

Of course I'll humour you, Amanda! Maybe you'll become convinced of 
MAGIC DISHWASHER and join the ranks of us who have understood what HP 
is really all about ;-) 

I'm not the one who actually created the theory (which can be found, 
FULLY, in post #39662, the rest are just attacks and parries around 
it), so you'll have to excuse me if I get it wrong. Pip's got the last 
word on it, whatever I say.

If I understood it correctly, Snape believed in the shack that Sirius 
and Lupin were as guilty as Wormtail, but it's beside the point. His 
act is focusing on allowing Peter scape (from his PoV, the least 
dangerous of the three, and the most probable to have a life debt to 
Harry), which is in turn based on acting as if he didn't know of his 
existance (or else, he would have to tell the MoM about him, and 
Dumbledore's A plan would go down the drain). It is very unlike Snape, 
if you think for a while, to let his passions out, and there is 
something very strange about the whole shack situation.

> There are six bizillion posts on this thread by this time and I
> simply can't weed through them. I thought a direct question might
> also help any new people who have tuned in in the middle, as I did.
> 
> --Amanda

It does seem to have gone out of hand, does it? I've broken my own 
posting record (over a dozen posts in under twelve hours), and I'm not 
the only one defending the theory: Pip, the creator, was also there, 
and so were a few others (I myself joined late, but made up for it by 
throwing myself right into the fray).

I don't think I can really give a quick class right now on the theory, 
but I do recommend everyone who wishes to follow post number 39662, 
which is the originator. If you'd wanted to ask something, please do 
so. If you've got doubts about the theory, or wish to say something 
against it, though, I'd ask you to check the thread, since Marina and a 
few others have been very thorough in ther critics and they probably 
include yours. Then again, I wouldn't mind going through it again, 
since it heklps to fine-tune the theory.

I was thinking on doing a re-cap post on the entire MAGIC DISHWASHER 
theory, explaining the broad outline, the arguments against it, the 
patches we've worked out and the origin of it's name, but I'm not sure 
if that should be Pip's work (it's her theory, after all), or if she 
would allow me to do so (which I think she would, because it's more a 
chore than a "thinking" post), and if I should wait to see if she 
finally was going to put together a post expanding the theory into the 
graveyard scene of GoF.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who really likes this theory and wonders what would Steve 
from the Lexicon think about it, and if he would put it up in the HP4GU 
FAQs of the Lexicon.