D.A.R.K. L.A.D.L.E.S. (WAS TBAY: Washing dishes and powders

[annemehr <annemehr@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52046

Wow!  Such a lot happens when RL intrudes for the space of two days!  
I would have replied to Tom's previous post and done a TBAY (me 
appearing out from an invisibility cloak in the Safe House living 
room), but there wasn't time.  I'm just going to post a few comments 
here and then probably let the MD/DL subject drop for now, except that 
I am doing some more thinking about Pettigrew (post to follow later).
> 
> 10) I would like to *deeply* thank everyone who has engaged the 
> subject with me, especially Annemehr, whose eloquent reasoning has 
> been invaluable in tweaking. ;-) On that note, I'd like to encourage 
> anyone who *hasn't* posted to volunteer an objection or comment.

Thanks for the kind words, Tom!  Especially as I don't normally feel 
eloquent or reasonable!  We do seem to click as mental foils for each 
other, though -- a sort of "resonance of ideas" goes on...


> All that said, Onward Ho!  ;-)

<a snippet>
> 1) The MDDT wrote:
> "That Lupin was a ticking time bomb. Lupin is a werewolf who hasn't
> taken his potion. He is dangerous and deadly. Period," Grey Wolf 
> nodded.
> 
> Tom replies:
<snip>
> 
> A.) The canon is not fully in on Wolfsbane Potion yet.

<snip  out what we know about Wolfsbane to quote in PoA of Lupin's 
transformation:>

> "As the werewolf reared, snapping its long jaws,..."

I just spotted something!  I went back to the DADA class where Snape 
was in as a substitute, looking for Hermione's line, and I found this:

"Silence! snarled Snape.  "Well, well, well, I never thought I'd meet 
a third-year class who wouldn't even recognize a werewolf when they 
saw one.  I shall make a point of informing Professor Dumbledore how 
very behind you all are...."

"Please, sir," said Hermione, whose hand was still in the air, "the 
werewolf differs from the true wolf in several small ways.  The snout 
of the werewolf --"

And then Snape cuts her off!  *Right there!*  Darn that JKR, she seems 
to do this often!  And nothing about snouts in FBAWTFT, either!  So, 
unfortunately, we can't tell if Lupin had had enough Wolfsbane in the 
previous week to keep him harmless.  I'd be willing to bet that a 
werewolf needs to take every dose properly to be safe, but the jury's 
still out on that one.  Does anyone suppose that Lupin will, at some 
point, take all his potion and transform into a harmless wolf, 
purposely terrifying some DE's, but Hermione recognises he's harmless 
by his snout?


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> <V. CONCLUSIONS>
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> 
> In conclusion, I cannot stress enough that both of these theories, 
> IMHO, *totally stink* at explaining what's really happening behind 
> the scenes. They're both interesting. But they both draw heavy 
> inferences from canon.

Well, it seems I like your theory better than you do!  Or, almost -- I 
still want a DL where Dumbledore and Lupin were thinking that Sirius 
was the traitor at first.  That way, certain things that they say at 
key points can be the straight truth.  All this discussion is 
certainly helping me settle on my own view of just what is going on at 
the Shrieking Shack.

Annemehr