Half-blood/soul-mind-Diary!Tom/SpectatorSports/DE MoMemployee/Sieve/PS-dream

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> Why did Dumbledore tell Harry to tell only Ron and Hermione about
the Horcruxes, not Ron, Hermione, and Ginny? Did he not know about 
H/G  ship, did he think Ginny is too underage to be involved, did he
> think Ginny retains a link to LV from CoS? 

Pippin:
There was no H/G ship as yet when Dumbledore advised Harry to share
his secrets with his friends, Ron and Hermione.

Catlady:
> I'm usually wrong about everything, but I still think that the Death
 Eaters and other pure-bloodist snobs of recent centuries have
nothing against Half-bloods. 

Pippin:
Half-bloods are the children of blood-traitors. It's the reason
Kreacher won't take orders from Tonks, and that Andromeda's 
line was blasted from the family tree. Voldemort accepts them
as DE's, after all he himself is one. But they aren't top drawer.

Another reason for me to think that the too eww to be true DE is
Lupin. No pureblood or halfblood would dare cast doubt on his
loyalty to the cause by asking  Lord Voldemort for a Muggleborn 
witch as a prize. But a werewolf...

> 
> Pippin Wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
> old_crowd/message/3054 :
> 
> << now that we know JKR's real opinion of spectator sports,  >>

Catlady:
> Excuse me, what did I miss?

Pippin
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/070
5-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-2.htm

 To be honest with you, Quidditch matches have been the bane of my
life in the Harry  Potter books. They are necessary in that people 
expect Harry to play Quidditch, but there is a limit to how many ways 
you can have them play Quidditch together and for something 
new to happen. And then I had this moment of blinding 
inspiration. I thought, Luna's going to commentate, and that was 
just a gift. It's the kind of commentary I'd do on a 
sports match because I'm — [laughs]. Anyway yeah, it was that.

> Eloise wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
> old_crowd/message/3071 :
 
> << Now this may mean very little in this particular context however
it is interesting that he witnesses the flash of the curse,
accompanied a vision of both Malfoy and Snape. Was Malfoy (sr) there, 
too, accompanying his master and later retrieving his wand? >> 

Catlady:
> Altho' I'm almost always wrong about everything, I've always thought
> that PS/Ss dream was a clue that Snape and Lucius were present with
LV at Godric's Hollow. But Pettigrew was there, too, as JKR said
somewhere (I can't find it in Quick Quote Quill) that the way Lord
Voldemort got his wand back was that Pettigrew picked it up from the
wreckage and hid it somewhere and picked it up on his way out of the
country to Albania.

Pippin:
Madame Scoop's classifies this as an uncorroborated fan report.

http://www.madamscoop.org/hoaxes.htm

Second-hand report: Jo said that Peter Pettigrew took Voldemort's 
wand and robe and hid them
This may be true, but we have no way to corroborate it. Here's the
source: just after the 2004 Edinburgh Book Fair, an 11-year-old 
named "Chris"  posted to The Leaky Cauldron (22 Aug 2004) that 
he had the following interaction with Jo (the italics are mine):

Chris: It was sooooo cool that we just have to show off and brag 
about it im afraid (sorry). Not only is JK Rowling the best Author 
EVER !!, but she is such a nice lady. It was so nice to get to meet 
her, shake her hand, say thanks for writing such brilliant stories 
AND have all our things signed!
We got there late, about an hour, which was really sad because 
we missed the book reading, but once we were inside it was 
awesome. JK Rowling even asked to see us last because she 
had been told about all the problems my Dad had had with 
his car (the engine blew up!) before we got to Edinburgh and said 
she would spend an extra 5 minutes with us at the end! - WOW, 
We think not that she would have even spent longer but we just 
didnt know what to ask her - all the questions got muddled up!
The ladies that helped get us to the book festival were really nice 
too, we were taken through to where JK Rowling was, given our 
wristbands, then we went to meet her. We said hello and she told us 
'she was really glad we could make it'. I told her I was really glad
tobe there and her books were the best, I said I wish I could have 
asked her a question and so she told me to 'go on then, ask away!'.
I asked JK Rowling would Professor Lockhart get out of St Mungos, 
get his memory back and be in any of the next books?, she said no 
to all of these questions.
I also asked when Harries parents were killed by Voldermort,
 Wormtail turned into a rat and pretended to be dead. How then 
did he give Voldermort his wand and robe back once he found 
him and helped give him back his body ?, she told me (after tapping 
her nose!) 'he hid them'.

We have included this information here at Madam Scoop's because 
it was so widely reported that we have assumed that one of the 
reporters had a way to corroborate Chris's story. But we admit 
it's a little iffy =).

--
I thought that the dream was showing us the birth of a prejudice.
Harry subconsciously associated Snape and Draco Malfoy with the
loss of his parents, though Draco can hardly have been involved,
and Harry's idea that Snape was linked to the pain in his scar was
a misapprehension.

Pettigrew may have been there, but I continue to think that it
was Lupin, polyjuiced as Sirius, who was still there when Hagrid
arrived. The real Sirius arrived later, after Hagrid and Harry were
already gone.

Catlady:
 I always thought Pettigrew was there because LV
> was afraid that Pettigrew was a fake traitor, leading him into a
trap, and he was going to make Pettigrew enter the house in front of
himto make the trap, if there was one, would catch him. But the
revelation that LV really is an excellent Legilimens screwed that -- 
he could tell Pettigrew was an honest traitor by looking into 
Pettigrew's mind.

Pippin:
Then it doesn't make sense that Pettigrew eluded Dumbledore's
hunt for the spy who was close to the Potters. 
Only  a superb occlumens and a very talented actor  could have 
brought it off.  There is no canon that Peter was either, of 
course, which is why I believe that Lupin was and is the spy.


Lupin is the person to whom Dumbledore granted a third chance,
the one he blindly and foolishly trusted, as I am sure we will
all see in Book Seven. I could be wrong, of course. But...

I've unearthed another piece of evidence that Snape is no longer
a loyal DE. JKR has steadfastly denied all attempts to ID the real
name of the negatively portrayed Gilderoy Lockhart, though
she's admitted he was based on a real person. She's labelled one
of them as a toxic rumor on her website. But she has freely
admitted that one of Snape's models is her high school chemistry 
teacher Mr. Nettleship. I don't think she would do that if she
was planning to have him be evil in the end.

Pippin