Confounding Conjectures Re: Spinner's End

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 156860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"  wrote:
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> 
> Carol, who thinks we should drop the polyjuiced Snape idea and just
> talk about Snape as Snape and DD as DD in posts concerning them and
> their motives
>
Mike:

Why? What's wrong with wild conjecture? It's fun and as Ken says:

> I'm an easy sell for crackpot theories. Why? Because the author 
> has said that no one will guess the ending and I take that as a
> challenge. If you want to divine the ending you have to consider 
> EVERY possibility and follow it through to see where it leads. 
> Many possibilities lead nowhere but the thing to remember is that 
> even the correct ones will appear to lead nowhere initially 
> because this is a complex story. It is only when several of
> these apparent dead ends are combined into a whole that the way
> forward is likely to be revealed.

Another part of this thread, concerning Polyjuice, brought up the 
possibility that Tonks was being impersonated. We did see an 
ebullient, pink-haired Tonks greeting Harry off the train at the end 
of OotP. Then 2 weeks later we have this sad, unimaginative and 
mousy haired Tonks talking to Molly when Harry and DD come acallin'. 
Did seem way out of character, didn't it? I know at the end of HBP 
we finally get an explanation and see Tonks with her pink hair again 
(sorry Tonks!Polyjuiced folks, this kind of shoots it down) but it 
was fun to conjecture. Someone thinking along these lines could 
easily come up with a breakthrough idea. To quote Ken again:

> The clues are inside the box, the answers are not. <

So I say, let the wildest and wooliest ideas be cast into the HP4GU 
winds and let's see which ones gain purchase.

Mike, who like Ken doesn't think like JKR, and needs others who have 
the gift to point the way