Two Wormtails was Re: Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

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No: HPFGUIDX 118361


> Pippin:
> 
> Yikes! Of course she picks which chat questions she'll answer. 
> Otherwise anybody could have sent a message to ten thousand 
> screens asking her how it feels to be leading thousands of 
> innocent children into the arms of Satan, or some such 
> nonsense.

Neri:

If she picks the chat questions she answers, wouldn't it be easier to
simply ignore this question, rather than invent a backstory that never
appeared or hinted in canon only to justify the lie?

> Pippin:
> 
> The theory is that Voldemort used the code name Wormtail  for 
> his spy Lupin in Voldemort War One, in order to taunt  James 
> and mislead Dumbledore <snip>

Neri:

A nice story, but still, you suggest this solution without a riddle.
Nowhere in the book the mystery is presented (or even hinted, IIRC)
who Wormtail really is. You only raised this possibility to address
JKR's answer in a chat, and this answer actually denies that there's a
mystery at all (Q: did Wormtail killed Cedric? A: Correct!). So why
would JKR create the double!Wormtail backstory without even presenting
it to the reader? If the reader doesn't know that there's mystery at
all, he/she would never try solving it, so what would be the point?

IOW, you created a solution in order to explain how JKR meant the
opposite of what she said in a chat, and then you created a mystery in
order to justify this solution. But both the mystery AND its solution
don't exist anywhere in canon!

I think this is some kind of a record, but I'm not sure of what
exactly ;-)

Neri