TBAY: Prank and the Pensieve Four

[derannimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 78128

Marina places the glass back, and begins again. "I favour a 
simple reading of the Prank. No middle man. Sirius, spurred on 
by some event we don't yet  know about, acts alone on a nasty 
*adolescent* whim, and totters off to brag to James, his best  
mate. James, developing a conscience, runs in and undoes the 
damage. Lovely  and clean."

Derannimer, who was *trying* to get some work done on an 
acronym before all of these *people* came in, looks up from her 
pad of paper and frowns. 

"Marina," she calls.

Marina looks across the room at the corner table where 
Derannimer is sitting. "What?"

"Well, I know you're in mourning, but that's no excuse!"

"Huh?"

"You're disregarding the canon that got Pip started on all of this 
the *last* time around! As Lupin is telling Harry about the Prank 
in the Shrieking Shack, he says that "James heard what Sirius 
was planning" and went to save Snape. James *heard* what 
Sirius was planning, which implies -- and everyone agreed on 
this one last time -- that Sirius himself didn't tell him!"

Marina is the one frowning now. Derannimer bends back over 
her pad of paper, still talking.

"I know it's complicated, I know the timing's difficult to finagle, but 
it sounds like James did hear about it from someone other than 
Sirius.

"Anyone know a word beginning with 'J'?"




Derannimer, who apologizes for the brevity of this post, and who 
is working on something longer