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

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No: HPFGUIDX 98892

>Jo Serenadust wrote:
<snip>
>Wouldn't it seem a bit odd if Harry, or 
> even Dumbledore were found to be writing to the Durmstrang champion?
> <snip>
>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>!
> 

Neri:
I think you are missing something here. As I understand it, there is 
no easy way to find out where or to whom an owl was sent (or you 
could use this to locate any wizard in the world). Harry sending an 
owl to mass murderer Sirius Black would be even more noticeable than 
Hermione writing to Rita Skeeter, but Harry easily diverted this by 
addressing his letter to "Snuffles". In the same way, if Hermione 
addressed her letter to "My dearest Beetle", Umbridge wouldn't have 
any way to know who is Beetle, but Rita would have got the message 
all right. For the same reason, DD can easily send owls directly to 
Krum and nobody will know about it, even assuming DD doesn't have a 
safer and faster way to contact Krum.

>Jo Serenadust wrote:
> 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.
> 

Neri:
Can't help you there. My poor English is not up to acronyms, or I 
would have found some for my own theories :-)  But good luck with 
your theory. I think it has a lot of truth in it.

Neri