Imperio! - but who and when?

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 102619

>Boyd wrote:
> But if we've learned anything from JKR, it's that the obvious 
rarely  happens. If we all think Ron is so obvious for this, then 
wouldn't that make him a less liekly target? Plus, JKR likes letting 
the trio  make their own choices. Ron would assumedly have no choice 
with an  imperio. (After all, it was not Hermione who read the diary 
in COS.)

> Kneasy wrote:
> If you think Ron's too obvious, how about Hermione?
> Whoo! Now that would be fun! Unexpected, too.


Mandy here:
It depends on where the expectation lies.  There are so many twists 
one could take with this sub plot.  Sure it's obvious, perhaps too 
obvious as you say, that Ron is a target for the imperio, but what if 
JKR has Ron, or Hermione, acting under the imperio through-out book 
6, but she doesn't let us know until half way through book 7?  
Fuelling untold amounts of website speculation during the intervening 
years. Resulting in many loud 'Oh my God, not Ron!'  Or if JKR has 
Ron behaving in such an obnoxious way that we all scream 'Imperio', 
but in fact it turns out he just got fed up with playing 2nd fiddle 
to Harry all the time.  Not likely, I know, but there a few different 
twists that Jo can put on the tale to keep us in the dark. She's 
managed to fool us on many other occasions. 

Cheers Mandy