HP: Mystery or Adventure?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117998


> > Neri:
> > So do you think that JKR will also reveal, somewhere in the 
> next two books, the mystery of what was Snape doing for five 
> hours while Harry and Co where having their trip to the DoM? <
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> There's no mystery. He was writing the chronicle of the Missing 
> Twenty-four Hours. <g>
> 
> Neri:
> >And if so, in what situation will this mystery be revealed?
> 
> Pippin:
> I expect Harry will be, as usual, cornered by the real villain, who 
> will explain how he has once again managed to delay Snape. By 
> then, Harry will probably have persuaded himself that Snape 
> murdered Sirius while hidden in the missing invisibility cloak. 
> But this time Harry will put two and two together himself, and 
> force the murderer to confess.


Neri again:

We already had red-herring!Snape twice, in SS/PS and in GoF. BTW in 
GoF he was only one suspect out of a bunch, probably because JKR 
realized he's not much of a red herring anymore. Do you really think 
the readers will fall for red-herring!Snape a third time? Somehow I 
doubt it. If the missing 5 hours will be utilized for a mystery plot, 
I trust JKR will make better use of them than that.

And if they won't, well, then maybe not EVERY suspicious occurrence 
is a basis for a mystery plot.

Neri