Prank/On posting.

[wildfire_517]

No: HPFGUIDX 80317


> Laura:
> 
> This leads me to ask a question I've been wondering about for a 
> while.  Although I'm not a conspiracy theorist (I think Kneasy has 
> cornered that market <g>), I do have to wonder about DD and what he 
> knew about the Marauders.  He says in PoA that they managed to keep 
> their transformations a secret from him.  I find that very hard to 
> believe.   Three boys, 2 of whom were the best and coolest students 
> in the school, left their dormitories 3 nights a month and stayed 
out 
> all night, and this went on for the better part of 3 years, and DD 
> didn't know about it?  (I'm excluding Remus here since obviously DD 
> did know about his full-moon activities.)  And how did James, 
Sirius 
> and Peter get through their classes after one of their all-night 
> adventures?  Even a 16 year old boy is going to feel the effects of 
3 
> nights of no sleep.  DD knows everything that goes on of any 
> significance at Hogwarts-how could he not have known about this?  

My turn:

  I believe, and always did, that DD knew what was happening.  He had 
to know.  DD knows everything that happens in Hogwarts.  He knows 
when Harry visits the Mirror of Erised in SS.  He knows when Harry 
and Ron are hiding under the cloak in Hagrid's during CoS.  I really 
don't want to search for tons of canon, but I think you can get my 
point.  DD just seems to know all the "secret" stuff at Hogwarts.  
Now, this could be just a perk of being headmaster, but I highly 
doubt it.  My theory has always been that DD knew that the Marauders 
had managed to learn to be Animagi to roam the grounds with Remus, 
but he let it go on for two reasons.  One, allowing Remus to have 
such close friends, friends who worked out how to do something only 7 
people in a century could do, probably was good for him both in terms 
of keeping the werewolf in check and keeping him more human than he 
normally would be.  Two, by allowing them to work in "secret," they 
achieved something great, but DD could have stepped in at anytime had 
they overstepped their limits.  Heck, it wouldn't even surprise me if 
he slyly dropped them a couple hints to help their work!  He just 
seems like that kind of a guy to me.
   Of course, I'm one of those DD lovers who swears that he will 
never, ever die, regardless of the possible foreshadowing and all the 
Star Wars conspiracy theories.  Take my ramblings with a grain of 
salt.

   Wyld