What Little Niggling Details will be left?

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 170907

 
> SSS:
> Quite some time ago, "The List" was put together and posted in the 
> Essay section over at the Lexicon.  This is a list of all the things 
> that some folks (notably Pippin, AKH and Serenadust) had come up with 
> as Items Which Still Needed to Be Answered by JKR.  (To peruse this 
> list, go to:  http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-the-list.html )
> 
> So what say ye?  What Little Niggling Details do you fear will be 
> left unanswered at the end?
> Siriusly Snapey Susan
>

JW:
Thank you SOOOO much for reminding me about that list!!  It has been 
way too long since I reviewed it, and have only the vaguest 
recollection of its contents.  Now is the time to revisit it!

I have a few LNDs to put forth, and don't know if they are on ANYBODY'S 
list, much less that of the highly distinguished Lexicon:

1. Why is LV repeatedly called the "worst DL in a hundred years" (or 
words to that effect)?  That requires LV to be more noteworthy than GW 
of the 1930s - 40s, and begs the questions of who the heck was that 
unnamed bad guy from the 19th century, what he/she did to achieve such 
notoriety, and what happened to him/her?

2. Why is DD so dedicated to fighting DLs?

3. Why is ol' DD so dedicated to giving second chances?


My wild 'n wacky conjectures:  
150-year-old DD hisself was the 19th century bad guy.  Somehow, he saw 
the light, did pennance, performed a world-class redemption, and grew 
into the DD we know and love in the septology.  Of course, he can not 
turn his back on any good cause, or give up on any bad guy.  He seeks 
to spread the grace from which he benefited.  Just as few characters 
understand the relationship between Tom R and LV, nobody knows the 
relationship between DD and the 19th century bad guy, although Prof. 
Marchbanks (?), the OWL tester, remembers young DD as a prodigy.

And as JW is certain these issues will not be addressed in DH, there is 
no canonical evidence to dispute these zany concepts, so he sticks his 
tongue out at all the justifiably skeptical - if not cynical - readers 
who are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that JW is swimming the 
deep waters of Crackpot Lagoon.