Pineapple/Rasberry/Imperious Curse/DD's behavior

[cathmorgan100]

No: HPFGUIDX 134615

Christina <Nanagose at a...> wrote:
> On a completely unrelated note, what is with Slughorn's obsession 
> with crystalized pineapple?  It's mentioned at least three times.


Cathcart writes:

(1) Introduction - new poster as of this week, mostly a lurker since 
January.  I LOVE the series, love JKR, love the characters, but sometimes wish JKR were a better writer... some "hints" turn out to be sloppy writing or timeline control. But, again, I enjoy her as much as I do most sci fi/fantasy/literary classics.; I don't need to 
analyze her appeal - it speaks for itself.

(2) Re: pineapple, rasberry, the Imperioius Curse, and DD's behavior

I'm wondering if anybody besides myself half-expected one or more 
important characters to be revealed as being under the Imperious 
Curse (besides Madam Rosmerta, which was an informative surprise). 

My book is leant out, so I can't quote the page numbers, but numerous references were made to both specific personal details about friends/family etc. and to the importance of knowing these details to use as challenges, to guard against being fooled by someone under the IC.  DD's mentions his fondness for rasberry jam?, other misc details about characters are revealed that could have been used as challenges - including the pineapple mentioned 3X - and yet nothing in the end came out of that at all except Rosmerta, for whom no opportunity to challenge was presented nor personal details known in such a way to be used.  To tell you the truth, my gut reaction as I was reading the book had me wondering about a lot of characters, including DD, who seemed occasionally so off character that I thought he might have been under the IC and using HP to get info from Slughorn's memory that would NOT have been to the OOTP's benefit.  Since the info was crucial in a beneficial way, I assume I was just wrong about that.

[DD being "off-character": if this was a brand new phase of 
truthfulness between DD and HP, why didn't DD just tell HP what sorts of things he was hoping to find in the memory? In fact, Slughorn could have just told him the information, unless the most important piece of information was the number of Horcrux's Slughorn mentions...  But even now, none of know for sure how many there are.  The memory of the conversation b/n TR and Slughorn doesn't constitue a unchangeable fact, it constitutes a really solid clue.]

Any opinions about whether this was just a sidewise hint or are there characters who will be shown in Bk7 to have been under the IC in Bk6?  Am I missing something more important about Rosmerta's lines?

Cathcart