24 hours - again

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 103101

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > 
> > It's almost as if he's spent the day interviewing witnesses or 
> > debriefing  an agent. Now  who would that be, I wonder?
> 
> 
> Oh come on Kneasy. You're not wondering one bit. I know you're not 
> and you know you're not. You and I both know exactly who he 
> was...interviewing, don't we?
>
Kneasy:
Tut, tut.
We're conducting an exercise according to the Socratic method, here.
We ask questions until there is only one logical answer, gently leading
the dubious and disbelieving to the ineluctable truth. Or my version
of it. 

> Mel: 
> Anyway...and here I go again after preaching about never giving any 
> credance to anything JKR utters outside of the books 
> themselves...she gave it away when she told us about that DE she had 
> to write out, what was his name? Pyrites? He was supposed to meet VD 
> at GH. Why did she write him out? (Writer's training kicking in 
> here.)Because she had someone else there already. Someone who was 
> supposed to meet VD there, yes, but also had another job prior to 
> VD's arrival. Warning the Potters, perhaps? A warning that was 
> arrogantly ignored.
> 
> Do we need to wonder about the identity of the one who took over the 
> role of this ill-fated Pyrites?
> 
Kneasy:
Pyrites? Would that be Ian Pyrites,  the renowned fake who glisters?
Interestingly enough when I tried to find him in Quick-Quotes nothing
turned up. Dunno if I was entering the wrong search parameters.

But anyway, we may have good reason to believe that there was someone
else at GH. But, *sigh* there are some who still seem to think that there
was a portrait, or some such in the Potter's back-bedroom -  a hotline
to DD. Sad, really. We  must treat them kindly, gently admonishing them
for falling into error and carefully institute their rehabilitation into polite
society again. Such a worry. Cheer them up;  encourage them with cries
of "Well done, old thing!" when they start to suspect everyone in the plot
of perpetrating vile  deeds. Deducing the identity of the 'Third Party' is
but the first faltering step on the long, tortuous path to full-blown
paranoia.