TBAY: Dishwasher huddle

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 47106

"Dumbledore had ten years between Voldy's fall and Harry's arrival
at school," answered Abigail.  "He could have taken the Minister job
in the interim and gone back to Hogwarts when Harry came to school.
I'm sure no-one would have dared to refuse him the position if he
wanted it."

Abigail smiled and got up. "I think I've earned a drink with that one.
I may even pay for it this time.  Another round, everyone?"

Abigail waltzed off to the bar leaving Pip and Mel still at the
disaster zone.  The table may have been straightened, but the floor
was completely a Pollack painting.  Pip looked over at Melody.  The
girl was quite shaken and still frozen with chips and dip smeared on
her hands.

"Mel, you all right?" Pip asked.

Melody's lower lip started quivering.  Her eyes starting to water.
She looked up at Pip barely being able to control her voice,
"Pip...Cindy...yelled...the table...food everywhere...she
yelled...threw that burning flower...she yelled *so* loud.  I cannot
take yelling Pip.  This is too hard."  Melody started shaking and
tears streamed down her face.

"There, there Mel.  You'll get use to it," Pip affirmed taking her
napkin and cleaning Mel's hands.  "Cindy did not mean to be so
forceful.  She is just frustrated and needed to let out her aggressions."

"But why on *our* theory?" Melody blubbered.

"Probably because we cause the most blood to boil.  You see, ours is a
'secret background conspiracy' theory.  A theory that has not been
spoken of in the text, so it is not subject to the direct counter
argument of the text to date.  That can be frustrating to the opposing
sides, don't you think?" Pip explained finishing cleaning Mel's hands
and folding the napkin on the table.

"I guess," Melody said still pouting.  "But why *must* they disprove
us?  Why are they so *bent* in destroying MD?  I see other theories
slide with little canon support just because they are cute or
charming.  No one throws tables at my little watch theory even though
it may or may not be proven in the future text.  What is so bad about
us that we cannot even be allowed our peace?"

Pip leaned back in her chair.  "I guess because we make Dumbledore
something they never saw him to be."

"What?  Human?" Melody sniffed.

"Partly, yes," Pip said pulling out her recorder and checking for
damages.  "Here, listen to this."

--
"Cindy, haven't you figured out the point of MD yet?" George rolled
his eyes.  "It's not *supposed* to be a real theory. That's the whole
point! Pip came up with a theory that *no one* -- and I mean no one ?-
can possibly understand!
--

"Um, wait.  Not that one," Pip said banging her hand of the recorder.

Melody's eyes welled up again.  "I guess we (sniff) are NO ONE," she
cried as she dropping her head in her hands.

"Mel, I am sure she was joking," said a deep voice that just joined
the table.

Melody looked up in mid tears.  "You think Grey?"

Grey nodded quietly and looked gravely at the two women.  "Things are
not always what they seem."  Grey placed three glasses down on the
table and pulled up a clean chair.  "Here I brought you some more
water and Pip some more tea."

"And Cindy can be a bit melodramatic at times," Pip nodded still
fiddling with her recorder.

"But George said that," Melody pointed out cupping the glass in her
still shaking hands.

"Well then, George is a Snapetheory.  Snape is a spy.  The Sphinx
riddle said spies lie.  So then George could of been lying." Grey said
with a grin.  "Really, though it doesn't matter.  You'll get use to it
all."

Hitting the record hard on top, Pip exclaimed, "There we are.  Ok.
Detractors' problem with creating a human Dumbledore."

---
Cindy
The cornerstone of MAGICDISHWASHER seems to be that Albus Dumbledore
is living a lie!  Any bit of canon that support MD is embraced, but
any canon that contradicts MD can be dismissed as Master Misdirection,
all carefully orchestrated as part of a master plan to restore
Voldemort.  Even if Dumbledore were to face down Voldemort and
explicitly disavow MD, the MD crowd would just say he was lying.
---

"Would we do that?" Melody asked.  "Dumbledore says clearly in PS/SS
that he will not lie.  Why can we use that defense when it is easily
shot down?"

"We wouldn't, but it seems some feel that when Dumbledore does not
share the whole truth he is in fact lying.  But to date, Dumbledore
has never lied, and we never claim him to.  He does withholds
information, but he never lies." Pip explained removing the tea bag
from her pint.

In fact, the only times we say the quoted bit of canon is a lie is in
reference to Voldemort.  *He* has no problems with lying." Grey added.

Melody sipped her water a moment then asked, "Then what is Cindy
talking about misdirection?  Does she mean Dumbledore is trying to
misdirect Voldemort or the other way around?"

Pip shrugged.  "Both really."

"And what is wrong with that?" Melody asked not wanting to think that
much right now, but at least she had stopped shaking.

Pip answered, "Because if Dumbledore is misdirecting people, he is
misleading them.  Bad side and good side.  The detractors find this to
be a lie."

"I don't understand why.  Seems the WW knew Dumbledore was fighting
Voldemort before his fall.  They even knew Dumbledore fought
Grindelwald.  Why would they be under the presumption that he was not
doing it now?" Melody asked.  "Kind of the reason why I don't
understand why it is a problem that Dumbledore misleads.  Seems it is
understood he is in the position to do that being that he is the known
leader of the opposition.  It is his job to misdirect the bad guy.
Just the WW does not know the bad guy is back, but when he is,
Dumbledore *does* tell them."

Grey sighed.  "Should you tell her Pip, or should I?"

"I'll do it," Pip said placing her cup on the table.  "You see Mel.
It does not matter what we say really.  We will convince *no one* that
this theory is valid.  No matter how many times we repeat ourselves --
no matter how many times we explain the circumstances -- they just
will not believe us.  They don't want to believe in a Dumbledore that
is not a good old grandfather patting his favorite grandson Harry on
the head.  We will *never* be able to convince them otherwise."

Melody looked down at her glass.  "Y'all convinced me," she said quietly.

Pip and Grey smiled.  "Quite right," Grey nodded.

"So should we give up and not still look for another listee that could
be broken from the cave and shown the light instead of all these
shadows?" Melody said looking up mischieviously.  She loves allegory.

Pip sat back.  "That is what we can only hope."

"Then to the fight," Melody called raising her glass.

"To the fight," Pip and Grey chimed in as they all clicked glasses.

Looking to her left, Melody saw Pippin and Abigail standing there with
books bouncing in their hands and a menacing glare in their eyes.  "I
don't think I am stable enough at the moment to take both of them on,"
Melody said cautiously.

Grey knocked back his drink and brought it back down on the table.
"Ah, don't worry.  We'll tend to them, or they'll just go away.
Either way, MD is still a theory and there is nothing they can do
right now to destroy it that they haven't already tried."

Pip smiled. "You rest and jump in when you are ready.  They'll still
be here.  They'll just grow a little impatient."

"Thanks guys," Melody said feeling much stronger in the fact she was
not alone.


Melody