New JKR FAQ Poll: Which is significant?

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Mon Jul 19 18:10:50 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 106911

Stefanie ponders:
Looking at JKR's new FAQ poll on her website, and looking as what 
canon has to offer us, which option do you think would help us the 
most? I haven't given it too much thought, yet, but as of right now, 
I'm absolutely stumped as to which I'm going to vote for...

//1) Is Percy working undercover for any secret organization/boss?//
I can't see this garnering any other response but "no". We get from 
the World Book Day chat:
|Q: Was Percy acting entirely of his own 
|accord in Order of the Phoenix? 
|A: I'm afraid so."
which would seem to imply that his overall "yes-man" attitude is his 
primary motive...but...getting convoluted, what if this answer were 
to mean that his actions were of his own accord, but as a ruse for 
undercover actions? I think it's highly unlikely, though. Of the 
characterization that we've gotten of Percy since he's been a 5th 
year, unless he's been in cahoots with some underground organization 
since then, I can't see his attitude and actions being the result of 
his secret alliance with the Dark Force Defence League or 
something ::smirk::
Meh, and if he *were*, that would seem to be an important plotline 
in the next books...not one that JKR would divulge easily and 
straigh-forwardly.

//2) Where has Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) been since the end 
of 'Goblet of Fire'?//
This is interesting since we get nothing of Peter in OotP save the 
picture of the old Order and 'Snape's Worst Memory.' There's the 
wizard's life-debt to take in account with this (maybe he's staying 
away from the action as to prevent himself from having to save 
Harry's life if it came down to it?) Is he learning the finer points 
of caring for silver? What would this clarify?

//3) What did Dumbledore's Howler to Aunt Petunia mean? ('Remember 
my last'?)//
I'm tempted to vote for this the most, and at the same time...gah! 
The wording of the Howler is so strange. We do know we're going to 
learn more about Lily in the upcoming books, and I *know* this point 
has been debated endlessly...but I have a feeling that even if she 
doesn't answer this straightforwardly, she'd let some clues drop.

So...any ideas on what would help us out the most here?

Befuddled,
Stefanie





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