Conspiracies and re-assessments

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113020


> 
> Neri:
> Carol, you can find a theory of mine that attempts to explain 
some 
> of these mysteries in:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hogs_Head/message/2772
> 
> I think the secret of Snape being a past DE is similar to Lupin's 
> lycanthropy. The parents don't know about it (they are always 
the  last to know about things like that) but the staff do, and those 
who  make it their business to know such things probably also 
know about  it. <

If the staff knew, then Lupin would know. If Lupin knew, he would 
have told Sirius. ("You are not Sirius's only correspondent") The 
whole premise of the books is that secrets can be kept against 
quite improbable odds. Much irony would be lost if this only 
applied to secrets that wizards keep from Muggles. 

In your Hog's Head post, you ask why Dumbledore would have 
refrained from punishing Lucius Malfoy if he didn't have some 
ulterior motive for making sure Malfoy walked free. But 
Dumbledore believes that he should not punish people until they 
have been proven guilty. That has to apply to people he suspects 
are guilty, or it doesn't apply to anyone. Without the Diary, there 
was no proof that Malfoy had acted of his own will--he could have 
been bewitched just as Ginny was.

Pippin