Mystery and Evil!Winky and Sexy!Remus (not together)

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 39106

Pip wrote:

> So, is the link two way? Does Voldemort know some things that Harry 
> knows? And is that why Harry is being deliberately left in the dark 
> about so much? Are Dumbledore's 'misdirections' of Harry actually 
> aimed at Voldemort?

A suggestion worth frequent quotation.

> Of course, if that is so, then JKR is definitely subverting the 
> detective format. In detective stories, the detective is someone
> who *must* solve the case. In the Potterverse, it might be that 
> 'detective' Harry is someone who *mustn't* solve it.

Subversion of the detective story format? Yawn. Not at you, or at 
Harry, but at ... Agatha Christie, isn't she the one who had the 
murderer be the narrator? And the recent movie Memento. Everyone 
always subverts the detective story.

> Have you considered whether a theory of 'Winky the House Elf is
> Ever So Evil' could fit into Crouch Jr impersonating Crouch Sr? 
> Given that I am assuming that the whole QWC Barty escape attempt 
> (which has NO coincidences if you decide it was planned/ordered by 
> Voldemort and deliberately assisted by Winky) was designed by JKR
> to get Winky fired from her role as the Crouches's House Elf and 
> thus 'plant' her in Hogwarts for a later book.

Granted that I am extremely gullible, I don't think of Winky as Evil 
or loyal to Voldemort, but rather as loyal to Barty Jr (whether that 
is due House Elf tradition or to a rather unsuitable 'ship'). 

If the bad guys killed or stunned/imprisoned Barty Sr so that Barty 
Jr could inpersonate him, Barty Jr would be in a position to fake 
firing Winky without rigging up all that QWC stuff, and count on her 
obedience in place at Hogwarts ... and for her to not have a chance 
of conflict of loyalty between Barty Sr and Barty Jr. (Conflict of 
loyalty would be a risk faced by a Barty Jr escape plot in which 
Winky was a conspirator.)

So now Winky is a loose cannon at Hogwarts. If her loyalty was to The 
Crouches rather than to Barty Jr, which Death Eater is the son or 
husband of a woman nee Crouch?

Irene wrote:

> So basically the difference between Neville and Draco is that Draco
> is blonde and nasty? :-) 

No, that Draco is thin and an adequate athlete (Seeker) :-) Do we 
know whether Neville is blond?

> But Lupin is ever so nice! There is nothing nasty about him (well, 
> 27 days out of 28 but who counts).

I fancy Remus most of all, and I don't believe it has anything to do 
with wanting to rescue him or mother him or because he is 
'vulnerable': I believe his problems serve only to show how 
(emotionally) strong he is; I fancy him because he is so extremely 
kind (oh, the thought of someone being *that* kind to me!), and 
competent, and emotionally strong. But I didn't comment about Remus 
to Elkins because I'm aware that this is a difficult point to defend.