Who Will Out Sirius? (was: Fubster/Harry's dream)

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49259

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) 
<catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Jo Serenadust wrote:
> 
> << I'm so used to my posts sinking like stones and not inspiring 
any 
> comments, >>
> 
> That's what happens when your ideas are so good and you explain 
> them so well that no one has anything to add except the forbidden 
> "I agree" post.

Shucks, Catlady.  If all this flattery keeps up, my head will get so 
swollen I'll never shut up (VBG).  Thanks!
 
Catlady wrote:

> Well, JKR has tried, via Ron, to make us think that the Twins 
might 
> turn him in for the reward money. The Ron-haters allege that that 
is 
> Ron projecting his own greedy treason on them. I can't bring 
myself 
> to seriously suspect the Twins OR Ron. 

  
I'm having trouble remembering where JKR tried to make us think that 
the Twins might turn anyone in for the reward money.  I do remember 
Ron saying that Percy was so rules-bound (my paraphrase), that he 
worried about him turning the twins in for trying to blackmail 
Bagman.  Was there an interview where she said something about this?

Catlady again:
> JKR has given us a very good feeling about Bill and Charlie, but 
> really how much do we know about them? 
> 
> Besides Percy and his misplaced loyalty, the other danger might be 
> dear Ginny -- the Trio AND her parents seem determined to leave 
her 
> in the dark, "spare" her from knowing the troubling things that 
the 
> adults are worried about -- so if she accidentally discovers that 
> Sirius Black is lurking around in dog form, and no one has told 
her 
> that he is innocent and they are hiding him, she might well report 
> him with the best of intentions!


I have a feeling that a lot of this information is going to be 
shared with *all* the Weasleys this summer (after GoF), and that 
there aren't going to be very many secrets left.  Ginny has gotten a 
lot older and since she's at Hogwarts where (let's face it), most of 
the dangerous stuff seems to happen, her parents will probably feel 
that she'll be safer if she does know what's going on.  Anyway, 
after CoS, Ginny's *innocence* is somewhat lost IMO.

Catlady again:
> Well, in GoF we have Ron happily telling everyone an ever more 
> exagerated version of his adventure as an underwater hostage. I 
> gather he likes attention enough that he'd be happy telling 
stories 
> of Harry's adventures, altho' he likes admiration enough to prefer 
> telling stories of his own heroism. I expect Ron has told 
everybody 
> everything that he was wasn't sworn to secrecy on and he doesn't 
> think it will get him in trouble and he doesn't think it will get 
> any other good guys in trouble -- so I don't think he'll tell 
where 
> Sirius is hiding, but he might well tell about Sirius having been 
> innocent, framed by Pettigrew, who was his rat Scabbers!


Well, if you eliminate everything that he wasn't sworn to secrecy on 
or won't get him or the other good guys in trouble, there's not much 
left to tell (bg)!  I tend to think he probably wouldn't mention the 
story about Sirius and Scabbers, if for no other reason, people 
would think he was nuts.  Given that everyone still thinks Sirius is 
guilty, he'd probably want to avoid talking about any further 
contact with him at all.  Ron doesn't mind trying to make himself 
look like a big-shot, but I don't think he wants to tell the world 
about Harry's adventures.  Of course, I am a big Ron fan but I can't 
think of any time in books 1 through 4 where he's been indiscreet 
about anything Harry's done or said.

Jo Serenadust