TBAY: Avery, Snape, Florence and a little bit of Neville

[amy_marblefeet]

No: HPFGUIDX 78500


>"Howdy-doo" the woman greeted them. Avery turned away.

>"Um, not to be rude," Amy said to the woman, "but who are you and 
>have you been listening?"

>The woman swayed a bit. "Now that you mention it, I was listening 
>pretty intently. I was keen on hearing what you had to say about 
>Avery here." Avery gave a loud "harrumph".

>"I take it you've met?" Amy asked.

>"In a fashion," the woman replied. "Oh, my name's Ginger. I had a 
>different fourth man theory that didn't include Avery. It got blown 
>out of the bay completely. Worse than Avery's. But I think he kind 
>of holds it against me." 

"Wait, that was that Third Nott Theory rubber ducky wasn't it.  You 
know I really liked that.  Had a nice sort of symmetry about it.  So 
now you have a new theory?" Amy asked.

>"Nope, just a comment on what you said." Ginger scrunched her eyes 
>shut and repeated:

>> "I am getting very suspicious of your "almost" appearing act. I 
>> don't think you turn up in the end battle, you might be there you 
>> might not cannon is unclear. There were about 12 death eaters but 
>> only four are mentioned: Mr Malfoy, Mrs Lestrange, Dolohov and 
>> McNair. You are not mentioned, no one calls your name or points 
>>you 
>> out. 

>Ginger cleared her throat in a nonhem-hem way and continued. "I was 
>just reading that section today, and they did mention everyone that 
>was there. It's on p. 788 US edition. Malfoy is telling the DE's to 
>split up to look for the kids. Nott is down at that point. He 
>divides the rest as follows: Belletrix and Rodolphus, Crabbe and 
>Rastaban," Avery made a gagging motion at the mention of the actual 
>fourth man. Ignoring him, Ginger went on, "Jugson and Dolohov, 
>Macnair and Avery, Rookwood was sent solo, and Malfoy went with 
>Mulciber."

>"Oh, Avery!" exclaimed Amy, "you *were* there!"

>"Yup" said Ginger. "Now what I wondered was why Goyle wasn't there. 
>Kind of odd, don't you think?"

"Damn, I was really sure that Avery was never mentioned again.  
Serves me right for not re-reading the entire battle scene again.  
You know what doing a search in OotP is like though, worse than 
yahoomort.  I hold my hands up and admit that I have only read the 
entire volume all the way through twice, mind you I loose count of 
the times I have read "Christmas on the closed ward" and "Snape's 
worst memory".

"Damn, so he has been caught again," said Amy removing her hand from 
Avery's shoulder.  "And somehow I doubt you will be able to talk your 
way out of this situation this time.  Though what the narrative will 
do without Draco strutting around the school spouting quotes from his 
dad.  Could there be any way to salvage the situation for Avery?"

"It doesn't look like you can.  Tied up by Dumbledore himself." 
Ginger replied.

"Well at least we still don't know what you look like Avery.  I wont 
say for definate as I have just lent out my book to my sister.  
Unless of course you were the "baby-head" death eater."

Avery looked completely disgusted.  First his hovercraft blown to 
pieces and now another shaky theory splintered all because of bad 
research.  He was seriously considering going to hide in a shady 
little corner of theory bay and not coming out until book 6 when he 
might at least get a line of dialogue.

> "Well, take care, I'm back off to the George.  I just came out for 
a 
> bit of air.  Place is full of dog hair."  Ginger waved and shuffled 
> back to her lurking hole.

"I'm sorry Avery, really I am.  I just got a little carried away 
that's all."

Amy