Clues for SHIPS and for the plot - Let's not forget Viktor ! (long)

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 98883

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:

> It doesn't seem logical, however, to have Hermione as Krum's 
contact 
> woman. She is as far from him as HQ in 12GP, or DD's office. If DD 
> wanted to send Krum orders it doesn't make much sense to find 
> Hermione and ask her to write him. And if Hermione were entrusted 
> with a way to send safe mail in and out of Hogwarts, why not 
> entrusting it to Harry also, and why didn't Hermione suggested it 
> when Harry needed to talk with Sirius and Lupin? She was very 
afraid 
> of that crazy plan to use Umbridge's fireplace with the twins' 
> diversion. Why didn't she say to Harry "if you just put it in the 
> letter, I'll find a safe way to smuggle it out"?


Well, when I think about it, Hermione would be the only logical 
choice to be Krum's correspondant.  After all, she was the "thing he 
would miss the most" in the TWT in addition to being publicly linked 
to him (in a romantic way) by Rita Skeeter in the Daily Prophet 
during the previous year.  Wouldn't it seem a bit odd if Harry, or 
even Dumbledore were found to be writing to the Durmstrang champion?

JKR has positioned Hermione as being precocious enough in her third 
year to have gotten special permission to use a time-turner, whose 
use is regulated by the MoM.  I would imagine that if Dumbledore 
wanted someone who could be relied upon to be discreet as well as 
clever with such an important task, Hermione would be the only 
choice.  As to why she wouldn't use this method to help Harry 
correspond with Sirius, I would think that she had been instructed 
to only use it for Order business with Krum and above all, to let no 
one else know about it.  Writing to 12 GoP or Sirius Black in any 
capacity would be far too risky and might blow her cover.



Neri continued: 
> The fact that Hermione wrote to Rita does not mean that she had a 
> safe way to send mail. Rita in the Three Broomsticks clearly 
didn't 
> know why Hermione wanted to meet her. This means that all Hermione 
> had to write her would be something like "will you be at the Three 
> Broomsticks this Saturday? If I won't see you there I'll be very 
> upset, and you know what is likely to happen when I'm upset" or 
> something innocent of that sort. If Harry managed to get past 
> Umbridge's screen this way, Hermione surely can.

Your scenario is possible I suppose since Rita doesn't know why 
Hermione has summoned her.  Still, can you imagine Umbridge allowing 
any Hogwarts student set up a meeting with  *Rita Skeeter*,(of all 
people)?  We do know that she's monitoring all post in and out of 
Hogwarts, so I think she'd be very, very suspicious of Hermione 
Granger setting up a date with a notorious reporter who has been 
very critical of the MoM in the past.  I would imagine that would 
set off all sorts of alarm bells for Dolores Jane <g>!

Thanks for your questions, Neri.  This theory doesn't have all the 
i's dotted and t's crossed, and I like having to think through all 
possible challenges to it.  Still, I'm so very fond of it that I'm 
thinking of ressurecting the old HPfGU acronym generator from the 
bottom of Theory Bay and giving it a Proper Name :D.

Jo Serenadust, wondering if anyone's seen Tabouli or Grey Wolf lately