Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

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No: HPFGUIDX 156080

Geoff Bannister wrote:
> >
> >
> > That's not much information on which to build a character
important
> > enough to be brought back from the dead. I see her as a version
of
> > the red shirt wearers in the original Start Trek series.
> >
>
> Pippin:
> That's just it. JKR doesn't go in for red shirts very much.
>
> Cedric started out to be a perfect red shirt character, and then
Harry had to
> spend the whole next book being devastated. Now we're starting to
see that
> even a Death Eater's death might matter to someone.
>
> We're not supposed to see death as inconsequential. A named Order
> member who dies unmourned and apparently unmissed sticks out a
> little too much to be a nobody, IMO.
>
> Anyway, it's very odd that no Order member, other than Snape, ever
mentions
> that Emmeline is dead.

Alla:

Well, if JKR would make us care about Emmeline the way she did about
Cedric, then sure.

Right now I am with Geoff, because I think that if JKR will bring
character from the dead, well no, scratch that, if JKR will tell us
that somebody was not really dead, I would think she would do it for
larger purpose than exonerating Snape ( it is irrelevant to me for
this argument if Snape is innocent or not, by the way).
I am just saying that the character whom we thought dead turning out
alive in book 7 should IMO serve somehow helping Harry.

If the argument is that Emmeline would be able somehow help Harry
with Horcruxes quest or something else, then sure, I can see this
possibility to be as good as any.

If she would just show up for no other reason than to tell us that
Snape did not kill her, I just don't see it, but I could be wrong of
course.

> > Alla:
> > 
> > Hehe, he does not even have to be insane, he just have to **not** 
> > come to Dumbledore for whatever reasons, you know?
<SNIP>
> Pippin:
> 
> But, um, I thought we got here by supposing the deleted line was a 
clue
> that the Order had been hiding people by faking their deaths. Are 
you
> saying the Order hid Regulus without Dumbledore knowing??
> ::boggles:::

Alla:

Hehe, not quite, I was supposing that this was a clue for people 
going in hiding by faking their deaths, not necessarily Order doing 
so. You know, foreshadowing, but not so direct? Like there are 
similarities between what happened with older generation and what is 
happening with younger, but not exact. SO, the whole order 
involvement is not necessary in this speculation.

 
> > Alla:
<SNIP>
But while I am convinced that 
> > she does not lie in interviews, she sure is being evasive about 
plot 
> > points, so why add **these days**, why?
> 
> Pippin:
> Given that Regulus is RAB, that's simple.
> The question was, will we be hearing from Regulus, and
> the answer, which could be decoded with the HBP release, was yes, 
> but he'll be speaking to us from the past, as he's dead. 

Alla:

That is certainly a possibility.

JMO,

Alla