Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death was Re: ESE!Snape (Was loads of other stuff)

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No: HPFGUIDX 99020

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

> Not at all. When you wrote that Kneasy got the wrong man, I was 
> assuming you meant the right man is ESE!Lupin. Did I understand you 
> correctly? BTW I was just starting to work on my ESE!Harry theory as 
> a pure exercise, but as the clues fall into place it seems more and 
> more logical...
> 


Good oh! Another potential character assassin!

It's quite possible that Kneasy has got the wrong man; not that that
would bother me much. My posts are constructed as mental exercises
in a last ditch attempt to stave off a decline into mumbling senility and
addiction to TV soaps as much as anything else. And I just love playing
with words.

But you put your finger on a key point; the ambiguity of character in
the books. Once you start to look it's almost certain that you'll find
phrases, actions that are incongruent with the accepted consensus
of their role in the story. So you look a bit closer, and wonder a
bit more -  is that a clue or a red herring? Who knows? But it'd make
a fun post. 

Eventually a detailed analysis appears - "J'accuse!" followed, if you're
lucky, by responses that range from canon based refutation (the best),
to wishful thinking non-canon theories (usually easy to counter), to 
appeals not to spoil the kiddies fun (to be ignored). That'll keep the
old keyboard active for a while. Then you can do it all over again with
somebody else.
Splendid!

Submitting Harry to radical re-assessment might be a bit extreme for
some, but it's quite possible to build up a case that presents him as ESE
using canon as the basis for the theory. 

I await your presentation with interest and may have a few things to 
contribute to the fun and games myself.

Kneasy