[the_old_crowd] Re: HBP: Luna's commentary and Tonk's Red Herring

Catherine Coleman catorman at catorman.yahoo.invalid
Sun Jul 24 15:47:43 UTC 2005


--- ewe2 <ewe2 at ...> wrote:

> Picture yourself on a list with an email
> With theories of this and theories of that
> Suddenly someone exclaims in the subject
> "There's something you haven't done yet!!"
> 
> What could it be I keep asking myself
> What could I simply forget?
> List Elves aplenty throw food in my face til I'm gone
> 
> Spacey on the Screen With Spoilers!
> Spacey on the Screen With Spoilers!
> Spacey on the Screen With Spoilers!
> 
> Aahhhhh!


Love it!  And what with the prospect of even more increasingly desperate poetical pleas from
Talisman to entertain us, I think it would be a tragedy to dispense with spoiler space just yet. 
> .
> .
> .
> 
> > "...but now that big Hufflepuff player's got the Qaffle from her, I can't remember his name,
> it's
> > something like Bibble - no, Buggins - "
> > 
> > Is this the first piece of evidence we've been given that the Wizarding World reads Muggle
> > fiction?
> > 
> > Catherine, focussing on the important things during her reread
> 
> I couldn't help noticing that too. I can't remember anything more explicit
> than that unless some Dickens fan comes up with something, Kneasy? Perhaps
> we'll get more of this in Harry Potter and the Cheeky Tart Wraps It Up.
> 

I'm actually wondering whether JKR was reading LOTR or The Hobbit during that scene - there is
something almost Gollum-esque about the way Peeves is talking.

I'm pretty well versed in Dickens myself, and nothing springs to mind.

> Noone seems to have noticed the great big galumphing clanger JKR dropped in the
> Dreaded Interview Pt. 2 wherein, quoting Dorothy L Sayers, she quoth:
> 
> " ...there is no place for romance in a detective story except that it can be
> useful to camouflage other people's motives. That's true; it is a very useful
> trick. I've used that on Percy and I've used that to a degree on Tonks in this
> book, as a red herring."
> 
> Kind of throws out the Tonks/Remus ship, IMHO. She seems to hint that the
> reason for DD's trust in Snape is kind of obvious, but it isn't so far to
> me...

Does it though?  I'm wondering whether she's kind of mis-spoke here.  The thing with Percy and
what was up with him was the fact that he *did* have a girlfriend, which was the explanation for
all his odd behaviour.  Isn't she saying this is what she's done with Tonks?  And on reread, the
clues are all definitely there - Tonks is going to Mrs Weasley for "tea and sympathy", and far
from trying to push Tonks at Bill, Mrs Weasley is looking reproachfully at Lupin.

I do still think her behaviour is odd, but not enough to think she's polyjuiced or something.

Catherine

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