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

[nkafkafi]

No: HPFGUIDX 118564


> Pippin:
> If you care to check back to message 40370, which was posted 
> in June of 2002 you will find Elkins discussing the idea of 
> whether Snape thought "Wormtail" was Sirius, ie the spy.
> 
> It's not the original post on the subject (YahooMort was giving me 
> grief) but at least it proves that fans were already discussing this 
> notion, suggested by canon, a long time before JKR made that 
> statement. 
> 
> 
> As I said before, it was a solution to   Snape's apparent 
> knowledge of the Marauder nicknames. 
> 
> If JKR *meant* the PoA passage as a clue that there was some 
> doubt about who was meant by "Wormtail" then her chat answer 
> gives those who have figured out that Wormtail is not necessarily 
> Peter  a wink and a nod, while those who don't get it are no 
> further misled than they were before.
>
 
Neri :

With your technique, any statement of JKR to the effect that "A is B"
can be proved to mean that "A is NOT B!"

For example, JKR wrote in her site that James and Lupin did not switch
bodies before GH. I will now demonstrate how Pippin's technique can be
used to prove that "James and Lupin did TOO switch bodies". The proof
goes like this:


(1) JKR is sneaky.

(2) There was a speculation in the past that Lupin has a brother,
Romulus Lupin. I assume that this speculation is indeed true (it
certainly seems possible, even fitting, and there's no canon to
disprove it).

(3) When JKR wrote that James and Lupin did not switch bodies, she
actually meant "James and ROMULUS Lupin did not switch bodies" (very
sneakily she didn't mention the first name in her words!). This answer
gives those readers who have figured out the existence of Romulus
Lupin's a wink and a nod.

(4) Knowing that JKR meant Romulus Lupin here, why did she make this
statement? The only explanation is that she wants to throw the more
gullible readers off the track, away from the TRUE plot...

(5) Conclusion: James and REMUS Lupin did TOO switch bodies (Q.E.D.).
An added bonus of the above reasoning is that I also proved the
existence of Romulus Lupin.

(If some members of this list will attack my reasoning here too
fiercely, I might give ground just a bit and admit that maybe it is
only POSSIBLE, not certain, that James and Lupin switched bodies).

With this technique it is possible to prove that any statement of JKR
actually means the opposite of what it says. The only step in the
technique that is not automatic is (2), since we have to find some
speculation suggesting that there is another character going by the
name JKR used in her words. However, with over 100000 posts in HPfGU
alone, probably raising any outlandish speculation one can think of,
this will almost always be possible (although locating the original
post might be difficult).

I'm sure many list members will find this technique useful for their
theorizing. I allow that it should be credited to Pippin, but I think
I also deserve some credit for making it explicit an available to the
public.

Neri