I'd like feedback on this theory

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 123586


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Janet Anderson" 
<norek_archives2 at h...> wrote:
> When I posted this theory on another list, some people said 
Mundungus was 
> just *too* obvious and therefore probably wasn't any more than he 
appeared.  
> Yeah, right.  "Hide in plain sight" is one of JKR's mottoes.  
And "comic 
> relief" is almost as good a way to hide things -- look at Scabbers -
- (or, 
> possibly, Ludo Bagman?).
> 
> 
Now Peg:

Well, I've wondered about Mundungus, myself.  The useful function, 
beyond comic relief, that he seems to serve is as the eyes and ears 
of the Order in the lower reaches of the WW.  I think he's a 
potential liability--if the DE's got hold of him, I suspect he'd blab 
everything he could think of at the mere mention of the Cruciatus 
Curse.  Of course, the DEs would kill him anyway, just so he couldn't 
go and tattle on them to the Order.

I don't believe (although with JKR, one never knows, does one?) that 
he's spy material.  I do believe that he's in the storyline for more 
and better purposes.  I think that he, in the company of the Weasley 
twins, are going to come into play in a plot to foil the DEs.  I 
haven't really worked this out, because I just thought of it, so I'll 
get back to you . . .

I can think of one other possible use for old Dung: Set a thief to 
catch a thief.  He knows how the underworld works, and he knows how 
to work in it.  He, like Scabbers, as you said, may well have more 
depths than we know about.  The whole outcome of the books may hinge 
on the actions of one seedy small-time thief and con artist.

Peg