DD and the rat: Conspiracy theories compared [LONG]

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115818


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" 
<nkafkafi at y...> wrote:

> Sometime in Book 7 (most probably) JKR is going to tell us 
The Truth about what happened with the secret keeper and in 
the Shrieking Shack (assuming of course that we don't have The 
Truth already). When she does that, she will have to do it in a 
way that the average reader (not to mention the average 13 yrs 
old reader) will be able to understand and follow. <

I don't know about the average 13 years old reader, but I had to 
read the ending of PoA three time before I understood what had 
happened, what with all the time travel. I needed a chart to figure 
out where everybody was when Sirius fell through the veil in 
OOP. 

Judging by her past examples, when JKR reveals the truth she 
won't have characters going scene by scene through their past 
actions revealing all the clues we should have picked up, which 
is what we conspiracy theorists have to do, and which is what 
makes everything so complicated. 

She will pick out just one clue: "Didn't you wonder why he was 
living so long?"  or "Your friend Miss Granger accidentally 
knocked me over..." and leave the rest for us to find. It works 
because Harry never actually solves the main mystery -- he's 
always caught off guard, and somebody, either the villain, or 
Dumbledore, has to fill him in on what really happened. 


Pippin