New JKR FAQ Poll: Which is significant?

delwynmarch delwynmarch at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 20 14:12:05 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 107037

Valky wrote :
> Of course there is the decided possibility that they are, actually, 
> *all* unimportant questions with strictly non-spoiler answers. That, 
> I have considered, and yet, I still have an inkling that JKR doesn't 
> play that way. One of them, surely, is a valuable clue, but which 
> one I am hesitant to guess, for now.

Del replies :
I've been thinking along those lines right from the beginning :-)

I mean, let's take a look at the 3 questions : is Percy acting
undercover, what's Peter been doing, and remember my last what ?

Which of the 3 do we *not* care about ? Right, number 2. Who *cares*
about what Wormtail's been doing !? He's done us all a favour by not
showing up, and he's such a creep anyway.

But maybe we should care. Maybe he's been doing something incredibly
important while LV was keeping the Order busy with the Prophecy. Many
of us have often wondered why LV didn't go and get the Prophecy
himself if it was so easy. Maybe the answer is that he didn't *want*
to. Maybe he was *pointedly* keeping everyone's attention focused on
the DoM, while Wormtail was preparing something infinitely more dangerous.

Just a possibility, of course. But I can imagine JKR's face if we
discover in HBP that Peter's whereabouts were indeed incredibly
important, and she gave us a chance to learn about that beforehand,
but we threw it away :-)

Del





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