A few random puzzles

[kizor0]

No: HPFGUIDX 117648


> 3.  In the Pensieve, Bertha Jorkins appears and delivers the 
>famous  lines that have us all so baffled:  "He put a hex on me, 
>Professor  Dumbledore, and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said 
>I'd seen him  kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last 
>Thursday . . . "  "But  why, Bertha," said Dumbledore sadly, 
>looking up at the now silently  revolving girl, "why did you have 
>to follow him in the first place."
> 
> For this Bertha Jorkins stuff to be important to make it into the 
> Pensieve and for Dumbledore to still be sad about it, 
>the "kissing"  has to be more than garden-variety kissing.  So I 
>wonder if Bertha  saw Snape, who is half-dementor, administering 
>the Kiss to someone.  Or maybe he is a vampire, and what Bertha 
>mistakes for a kiss is really a bite.

Personally, I'm overcautious about running into new Mark Evanses. Do 
we have good reason to suspect that the boy and Florence are a 
Significant Plot Point, instead of just an example of Jorkins' 
character?

The theory about a half-dementor Snape is a quite intriguing one, and 
certainly original, but... how many people do *you* know who would 
procreate with a dementor?

- Kizor, who is somewhat sorry for giving you the mental image