Polyjuice potion (was Re: Spinner's End)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 156785

Ceridwen:
> 
> > You see my problem with this. JKR has nixed the idea 
> > that Dumbledore and Snape changed places in saying that 
> > DD is really dead, 

houyhnhnm:
> 
> No, she hasn't.  She has stated that Dumbledore is dead.  
> The slippery Ms. Rowling has gone out of her way to avoid 
> saying "Dumbledore was killed on the tower".  First in the 
> press conference, when she referred to the "the character 
> who died at the end of book six", then in her answer to a 
> question about Draco on the first night at the Radio City 
> Music Hall reading when she said "let's just say that Draco 
> would not have murdered the person in question".  So 
> Dumbledore is dead, but as she said in the LC/Mugglenet 
> interview a year ago, "the question is when and how".

Ceridwen:
Heh.  Yeah, that's right.  She didn't say 'killed', even.  She 
said 'died'.  Could it just be part of keeping the Big Secret for 
those who haven't yet read the book, the 'when and how' of it?

houyhnhnm:
> I'm certain we're in for a big surprise in book 7.  I don't 
> have a theory about what it's going to be (except I think 
> it will have to do with someone in book 6 not being who they 
> appeared to be), but I'm looking forward to it. I am confidant
> of not being disappointed.

Ceridwen:
That's one thing I like about the HP series: I'm almost never 
disappointed.  I wasn't too crazy about the ships and how they were 
launched, but that's peripheral.  The main things are always 
delightful.

I agree with you that someone besides Crabbe and Goyle had to have 
been Polyjuiced.  The 'other shoe', if it really was the other shoe, 
didn't make much of a noise when it dropped.  If someone was 
impersonating someone else, though, who could have been impersonated, 
and who could have done the impersonating?

Ceridwen.