DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

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No: HPFGUIDX 115573


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
>snip> 
> Dumbledore has a plan, but I think postulating the level of 
> involvement/manipulation that the Agent!Peter theory does makes DD 
> out to be Preposterously Competent.  He's good, but he's not *that* 
> good.  He makes some whammies of mistakes.  I'm not sure he really 
> knows whatever happened at GH.  I'm pretty sure that he's actually 
> wrong in his interpretation of the Prophecy, and Harry's going to do 
> something elegantly different.
> 
> But I'm probably wrong.
> 

Oh, I  hope not.
Not much point in all the theorising if everything's going to be obvious,
cut and dried and worst of all - fluffy. But I  think that most of us scour
through canon, snapping up unconsidered trifles precisely because we
don't think things are cut and dried or obvious. And with more deaths
promised there's a good chance it won't be fluffy either. Splendid!

But this Agent!Peter thingy - I  wouldn't go  so far as to postulate that
the Rat is more than an Agent of Influence, not unless I find more canon.
There's somebody close to Voldy who DD hopes has a divergence of
motivations - no more than that. And that could be very useful indeed.

Maybe it's already showing - Peter does seem to be the only DE that 
offers even tentative opposition to Voldy's ideas.

GH and it's aftermath will continue to be a frustrating, murky episode
I think. And the  fact that JKR has kept it that way for 5 books leads
this paranoid conspiracy theorist to hope, nay, expect that JKR will pull
a fairly substantial rabbit out of the hat  when all is finally revealed.

Kneasy