HP previews on Oprah *right now*

[Leon Adato]

No: HPFGUIDX 45907

Just FYI, Oprah is showing previews of the next movie that must not be
named, plus interviews with the 3 leads. Showing 4:00pm USA eastern standard
time.

Leon Adato
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anne [mailto:annemehr at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:51 PM
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] New Thoughts on: re(TBAY)Operative!Arthur, 1st
Prediction, Fudge at L.C.


As I have been catching up on a week's worth of posts,
a few thoughts have struck me about them, so I thought
I'd celebrate coming off moderated status with this
post.
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This thought concerns Arthur Weasley's part in
fighting dark wizards, so I may just send it in a owl
to Cindy out on the TBAY!  My idea is that many
wizards and witches were very involved in the struggle
against Voldemort, not just Aurors and Unspeakables
(and I actually have a completely different idea for
Uspeakables which I will get into in a bit).
Dumbledore's "old crowd", which included the Weasleys,
are not Aurors, but just decent wizards fighting evil.
 At this time, Arthur does work at the Ministry in
some capacity.  Based on the unforgivable curses
lesson, I could certainly see that JKR could be
hinting that he was a victim of Imperious as a form of
foreshadowing.  Even though I am not really sure that
Arthur was put under Imperious, I do like the theory,
and came up with this scenario:

Arthur Weasley, a Ministry official and ally of
Dumbledore, falls under the Imperious Curse.  He is
found out, rescued and cleared of wrongdoing.  By now,
Fudge is MoM and shunts him off into the Misuse of
M.A. Department, saying, "Sorry, old boy, but you see
how it is -- I can't have an minister in an important
department who is known to have done (whatever), even
if we at the MoM have full confidence in your
innocence.  Think how it would look to the
wizard-on-the-street!"  So Arthur begins his new job.

But, Dumbledore and he see a new opportunity here.
Arthur, while certainly doing the work his new job
requires, is now free to conduct raids on wizard
houses  to look for evidence of dark magic on the
pretext of merely looking for biting teacups and
shrinking keys!  This explains his sometimes late
hours.  My feeling is that he is doing this with the
OK from a Cornelius Fudge who has so far been on the
good side.  (It will be Fudge choosing _what is easy_
rather than _what is good_ or _what is evil_ which is
going to cause so much trouble after the return of
Voldemort.) It may also help to explain his dual
persona within the ministry: respected on the one hand
by many, yet somehow held back and not well-paid.

So we have an Operative!Arthur who is neither an Auror
nor an Uspeakable, but nicely placed to find out
something about who is on which side, at least for a
while. As for the role of Unspeakables, I do not
assume they are the espionage arm of the ministry.
What if they were into something completely different,
like top secret, highly dangerous magical research?
Maybe it was they who produced veritaserum?
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A quick thought on the first prediction involves the
question of Prof. Trelawney's age.  Do we have any
indication of how old that may be?  If she was 75 or
80, she would not be so old by wizard standards, and
she could have been teaching when Tom Riddle was at
Hogwarts.  Perhaps she made her first prediction in
his hearing when he had already learned enough to
recognize it for what it was?  But in that case,
Dumbledore would only have heard of it if there was
someone else who could have reported it to him...
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Finally, as to the question of how Fudge could have
been waiting for Harry at the Leaky Cauldron after
Harry ran away from Privet Drive, so what's the big
deal?  How many places would Harry have gone, anyway?
Hogwarts? Probably too far, but if Dumbledore wasn't
there already so close to the start of term, he could
certainly arrange for someone to look out for Harry
there.  The Burrow? Maybe, if Harry could find it, so
the Weasleys were undoubtedly alerted.  This leaves
the Leaky Cauldron as the only other reasonable place
for Harry to go.  I believe Fudge must have ordered
ministry wizards out to search the countryside for
Harry and then gone straight to the most likely place
for Harry to turn up, and waited there.

So I'll stop here, see if there are any thoughts, and
send off my owl to Cindy.  I'd hate to just go and
disturb her in person, in case she's not feeling up to
having visitors...


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