old posts, new light

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<kneazle255 at y...> wrote:
> > I wonder if someone (Kneasy? Talisman?) has considered the truly  
horror-inspiring possibility that Dumbledore has been using HP as a  
decoy for sixteen years to protect Neville Longbottom. 


Kneasy replies (snipped):

Of course I have! I'd be a pretty poor conspiracy theorist if I 
hadn't.
I  know it's slightly infra dig to refer to your own posts, but I'm 
afraid  I'm going to have to - no alternative, unfortunately. Very 
few seem to share my Machiavellian turn of mind coupled with a 
suspicion of just what JKR is capable of. (But keep your eye on 
Talisman!)
(Kneasy refers the curious reader to his own posts, nothing wrong 
with that in hg's opinion: 65696, 75035, 79180, 75081)

 
> To precis the whole thing:
> 1. A prophecy can only be considered accurate *after  the events it
> foretells have happened*. 
> 
> 2.Even then it  may depend on the interpretation or imagination of 
> the reader or viewer (this is where old  Nosty came in). 
> 
> 3.The prophecy storage at DoM may be a sort of Quality Assurance
> programme; store and protect so that no-one can read or interfere
> with them until events involving the named persons actually 
> happen. Then check events against prophecy. Grade the seer for
> reliability by  their track record. 
> 
> 4.Anyone who reports a possible prophecy must take care not to
> perform any action that may affect the course of events the
> prophecy deals with. Foreknowledge by too many people may 
> influence events as they may act as if the 'prophecy' *must* happen.
> 
> 5.This is Dumbledore's situation and dilemma.
> 
> If in fact my reading of the prophecy is right and  DD understood 
it, then he knew, or at least suspected that the Potters (or the Long-
> bottoms) would die. Before the event. And he could do nothing
> about it. To do anything could invalidate the prophecy and prevent
> the appearance of "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark 
Lord."
> What would be Harry's reaction when this sinks in? That DD may 
> have been able to prevent his parents deaths and didn't? 
> Plot line par excellance for the next book!
> 
> Maybe it's a bit too convoluted for everyone's tastes.
> No, I don't expect everyone to  accept it as a front runner in the
> interpretation stakes. But Kneazle asked a  question of me that had 
been answered long  since.  Posters often forget what's been said 
before; there have been so  many posts after all. We can't remember 
them all.

hg replies:
No problems here with you referring readers to your previous posts; 
on the contrary, sometimes these a-ha moments happen for some later 
in the game than for others; maybe those some were a-ha-ing about one 
thing while you were a-ha-ing about Dumbledore, Lily, prophecy, etc.  
And I should add, Kneazle is new to the board.  (Actually, I myself 
have referred readers to your 75035, but being there are so many of 
us here, that has slipped through the cracks.)  So referring readers 
back may avoid some unnecessary reinventing, to use your terminology.

While your conspiracy theorising can be off-putting to some, it 
always sheds new light on old territory, and I don't think anyone on 
the board reads your posts without laughing or scratching his or her 
at least once (I recall reading "Sexpot Thunderthighs" myself and 
laughing out loud, the only time a post has ellicited that response 
from me).  I'd take it as a cap off to you that Kneazle has wondered 
what you thought about his ideas.  

And now, onto those posts listed above, to have a conversation that 
meets Kneasy where he is in this thought process.
hg.