How to contstruct an ESE!plot was Re: The Secret Revealed! ESE!Arthur

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 147103

> Pippin:
> > His first act was to stand there arguing with it, 
> > which Dumbledore tells us never works. He doesn't 
> > get rid of it until after Harry passes out. Not very 
> > nice. And what was it doing there anyway? Who ordered 
> > it to invade the train?

> houyhnhnm: 
> And what was he doing on the train in the first place?  It's a 
strange
> way for a fully qualified wizard to travel.  Maybe he was too poor to
> own a broom, but why not apparate or travel by floo?


Jen: Dumbledore. Asked him to ride knowing he could deal with a 
dementor if there was any trouble. That's not actually canon but it 
seems like it could be. :) 

As for the chocolate, Pomfrey and Mcgongall pretty much verified 
giving chocolate to kids after a dementor attack is considered a 
plausible DADA strategy and not the acts of a criminal. The 
sneakoscope going off, the chocolate, and heck, practically everything 
Lupin does in POA is pretty much equivalent to Guilty!Snape in book 
one and Karkaroff/Crouch Sr./Bagman in Book 4--ambiguous red herrings 
to keep Harry and the reader off the scent of the real culprit. JKR is 
making a habit out of weakening the adult characters to strenghten the 
hero. 

Jen, on a kick of thinking things will be fairly straighforward in the 
end and wondering how the series will read 5, 10, 20 years from now 
when many of the mysteries are no more.