TBAY: Why Evil!Moody and Sirius/Arabella pillow talk didn't work

[linda_mccabe]

No: HPFGUIDX 39961

Cindy wrote:

> OK, I am completely Shocked!  
> 
> Stunned!  
> 
> Slack-jawed, even!  
> 
> I just checked the Ever So Evil Poll, and only *two people* have 
> voted that Moody will be Ever So Evil.  And I'm one of those two 
> people!  That means that the percentage of list membership that 
> believes in Evil!Moody is . . . 
> 
> <reaches for calculator>
> 
> .024606299212598425196850393700787e-4.  
> 
> What *is* that, anyway?  That's not even a *number,* is it? 
> 
> Sheez!  Twice as many people voted for *Evil!Winky* than Evil!
> Moody!  What is going *on* here?
> 
(massive snippage of an excellent post regarding her theory on Evil!
Moody)

-The reason that I have a *problem* with Evil!Moody is not that he 
might have been secretly evil to the core in the past, is that I 
just can't buy that he will be Ever So Evil in the future.  That 
just is because I'm trying to put one foot in his shoe (and figure 
out what to do with my other foot 'cause it won't fit in his 
pegleg).  If I had been a top secret agent of Rookwood and was so 
secret that Voldemort didn't even know of my existence, sure I'd be 
worried - but I'd also be incredibly *cheesed off* for being held 
hostage in a trunk for 10 months, being starved and under incredible 
mind control games.  

Heck, if Severus Snape can turn sides and become a former-Death 
Eater, then poor tortured Real Moody could decide To Heck with Being 
Secretly Evil!  I'm turning back to Dumbledore's side where everyone 
thought I belonged anyway.  Then again, once the gates of Azkaban 
are opened and Rookwood comes out...you don't know what secrets he 
held over Moody to make him be a deep mole in the first place.

So, if *I* were Moody and felt that everyone was out to kill me on 
every side, I'd do it on my own accord.  Yup!  I'd find some nice 
Draught of the Living Death and off myself.  BANG!  Or do you think 
suicide is a bit too harsh for JKR to give the little kiddies...

He won't be betraying Dumbledore because he'll be pushing up daisies 
soon.


Then Eloise 
>I never quite understood *why* the Sirius/Arabella partnership was 
>abandoned. 
>I never thought the objections were strong enough to completely 
>disprove it; 
>I rather warm to it, myself.

and Charis Julia:
I never quite got that myself. Was there perhaps some shattering 
post that I missed? I'm not quite sure I quite I buy the idea that 
Sirius was hanging out in Arabella's bedroom at the beginning of 
PoA, mind  you. I do still object to that. But surely that doesn't 
disprove the rest of the theory, does it?

Athena:

This is why I don't believe there was any Sirius/Arabella pillow 
talk at the beginning of PoA.  It was the idea that if Sirius 
visited his old flame and she told him some information about Harry 
after they resumed their relationship.  This was quickly dismissed 
once you put yourself in Arabella's sheets.

As Dead!Sexy as we know Sirius has the potential to be, if you had a 
former lover that had just escaped from prison come to your doorstep 
wouldn't the first thing you'd do would try to help them *change 
their appearance*?  I mean that is if you were so deeply in love 
with them that you would either 1) forgive them anything or 2) 
simply not believe any bad word spoken against them because My 
Sweetie Pie Would Never Do Anything Wrong.

Heck, if I were Arabella and had an intimate past with Sirius and he 
showed up on my doorstep...if I believed his innocence the first 
thing would be to cut his hair, shave his beard, give him a good 
bath, get new clothes and come up with a good cover to help him 
escape the Muggle and Wizarding patrols.  It might not do any good 
with the Dementors, but heck everyone else has eyes don't they?

No, since Sirius still had filthy matted hair - he hadn't contacted 
anyone that cared for him.  However, I'm still holding out that 
he'll staying in a nice house over the summer.  Say a few streets 
away from Harry?  And maybe catching up with an old friend and 
future flame...Both Sirius and Arabella have got to have a lot of 
built up sexual tension after all these years alone.

That too would have a big BANG, although a different meaning in this 
context.  ;-)

Athena