Stubby Bored Man?/Hermione can be wrong!

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115078


 
> mhbobbin wrote:
> > > Boardman. Bored Man. I don't mean the whole story as reported in
> The Quibbler is legitimate. But what would have prevented Sirius 
from
>  sneaking out of Grim Old Place to sing with The Hobgoblins. He was,
> after all, a Bored Man.  And this particularly far-fetched article 
is
> mentioned twice. First, when Kingsley gives the paper to Arthur
> thinking Sirius would find it interesting. Second, when Harry picks 
up
> Luna's magazine.
> Carol responds:
> As for singing with the Hobgoblins as Stubby Boardman, the only
> evidence for the truth of that story is the bad pun. I personally
> don't think Sirius was getting any recreation beyond screaming at
> Kreacher and drinking himself into oblivion. Unless, possibly, he 
was
> reading Snape's reports! ;-)

Finwitch:

Perhaps. Still, they *did* state Sirius as innocent, yes? At least 
that much was right. Also, Quibbler was the paper that printed the 
*truth* Fudge didn't want the public to know...

Harry didn't believe the article, but how would he know? And for the 
man not looking like Sirius, well, Sirius disguised himself. I'd love 
for it to be true...

Anyway, if I were Harry, I'd subscribe to Quibbler.

And Hermione WAS wrong about Thestrals! Maybe Luna and Quibbler are 
right about other things, too... And um - Luna is a Ravenclaw, so she 
has love for wit, intellect and learning. As to why she was reading 
the paper upside down - maybe it was just to get a different 
perspective or simply because ability to read upside down can be 
useful?

And what comes to Nargles and all those other beings Hermione claims 
don't exist - well, Hermione probably thought magic didn't exist 
until she got her Hogwarts letter and someone showed her magic is 
real! She didn't believe when Trelawney gave her *true* prophecy 
Harry witnessed. She didn't believe thestrals exist. She doesn't 
believe that house-elves can be truly devoted, love working and take 
offer of freedom as an insult - in short, there *are* cases where 
Hermione has been wrong before. Why not this?

And further.. The DADA-group. First she thinks it's a good idea, and 
it is HER idea to begin with. (Yes, I think it was). Then, she 
suddenly changes her mind just because Sirius supports it. (Never 
mind whether Sirius was living trough Harry or not.)

Considering that, the fact that Harry did stop long enough to listen 
and try to contact Sirius when his vision tells him Voldemort is 
torturing Sirius - it IS really much. Harry's further disregard to 
Hermione - well, if she's SO against Sirius that she'd drop the idea 
of DA just because Sirius was for it... Why *would* Harry go with 
her, when it's SIRIUS who is (supposedly) in trouble?

Also, Hermione could have said that just because Sirius pointed out 
her error in choosing Hog's Head instead of three Broomsticks...

Oh, I wish I could read HBP..

Finwitch