[the_old_crowd] Re: His Little Helper

[Magda Grantwich]

--- Talisman <talisman22457 at ...> wrote:
 
>> Magda Grantwich Message 2594
>>And if Regulus was RAB it won't be because he's important to the 
>> plot but rather because it ties into a few other plot points that 
>> are hanging loose at the moment:
>>1. Harry inheriting 12GP and everything in it.
>>2. Harry inheriting Kreacher.
>>3. Kreacher being close at hand at Hogwarts and having to obey 
>>   Harry.
>>4. Mundungus Fletcher being caught stealing loot from 12GP.
> 
> Talisman: 
> That's the thinking behind my original post, except the only reason
> Mundungus' stealing figures in is that it may remind readers of all
> the interesting stuff at GP.  Do you have another reason?


Well, it occurs to me that if Fletcher is busy stripping 12GP of
everything that isn't nailed/hexed down, then time is of the essence
if anything is to be safeguarded.  So it adds a bit of urgency to
Harry's search for the locket in 12GP and in the various pawnshops or
fence establishments in the WW.

One of the clunkiest bits of writing in HBP was Harry running into
Fletcher with his sack of loot in Hogsmeade of all places.  Why was
Fletcher there?  Why wasn't he in Knockturn Alley?  

The only answer I can think of is that there is someone in Hogsmeade
who takes more of an interest in ill-gotten gains than would be
gratifying to the local Better Business Bureau.  And that this person
and his/her shop will be one of Harry's destinations in Book 7.

Magda (who never liked Mungdungus Fletcher from the first)

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