Magic Dishwasher authorship..

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Sean Dwyer <ewe2 at a...> wrote:

> Randy, here is some reading for you:
> 
> #39662
> #40044
> #81010
> 
> and very likely all the posts Pippin mentions in them. Put simply, 
it is probably the most influential Potterverse theory of all time 
and is probably responsible for so much of the List's activities we 
haven't yet been able to quantify it.
> 
& Sean later:
>MAGIC DISHWASHER is not my theory, it's Pippins :)


Carolyn:
Could I just quickly point out it's Pip!Squeak's theory, not 
Pippin's. They are very philosophical about being mistaken for each 
other by now, but since Pip has just slipped into the member's list 
here, I wanted to make sure people knew this.

As to whether it is the most influential Potterverse theory of all 
time..well, there's a statement to get people going (I would hastily 
invest in some combat gear, Sean). 

Looking at it in terms of its arrival on the HPfGU list, it hit in a 
period of mounting doubt as to what exactly was going on in the WW - 
Pippin's ESE!Lupin theory preceded it by about 300 posts, for 
instance. From then on the two initial posts, Spying Game I & II 
convulsed the discussion for months, and continue to generate debate 
even now.

Personally, I do think MD had the lasting effect of introducing the 
notion of PuppetMaster!Dumbledore, whether you agree with that 
reading or not.

Carolyn
PS MAGIC DISHWASHER stands for 'Mysterious Agendas Generate 
Interesting Conclusion: Dumbledore Is Secretly Hatching Ways to 
Assure Superiority for Harry in the Emerging Resolution'.

The history of how this weird acronym came about is amusingly 
explained in Grey Wolf's post #39854.