Some points in OOP, and the Mark Evans Thread

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Re-reading OOP today (oh, the eye strain) I saw a couple points of interest:

1) Dumbledore IS an extremely powerful wizard, blocking 2 out of 5 reportedly 
unblockable AKs, (Fawkes ate one and the other two missed.) Hmmm.

2) Agnes, the lady in St. Mungo's, who is told by the healer that her son is 
dropping by that night, and in the very next chapter Snape is in his good 
traveling cloak and repeatedly says he has somewhere else to be (of course it 
could be wanting to get away from Sirius or a DE meeting, but....)

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Pip!Squeak wrote:

And I think that JKR is using her Agatha Christie tricks again. [If 
you have a chance to look at the photo on the back of the UK adult 
edition of OOP, she's photographed in front of a bookcase which 
includes Agatha Christie novels].

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With all the interesting, meaningful surnames she could have picked 
(and has picked for other characters ) - she picked Evans.

"Why didn't they ask Evans?"

It's a Christie trick.


Me:

I've often thought that JKR is a Christie fan. 

"Mr. Brown" in The Secret Adversary, by Christie:

"...Once or twice I have felt afraid.  The first time was in Italy. There was 
a dinner given. Professor D---, the great alienist, was present. The talk 
fell on insanity. He said ' A great many men are mad, and no one knows it.  They 
do not know it themselves.'  I do not understand why he looked at me when he 
said that.  His glance was strange....I did not like it..."

Shades of Riddle, eh?

Amber 


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