There's not much to go on

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at e...> wrote:
> 
> Of course if Voldy isn't the big bad and Salazar is then we're off 
> on the whole evil within, dark side riff. I've been playing around 
> with the idea that SS like Tom and Harry was a half blood, and a 
> prince to boot (well who doesn't want to kick minor royalty). The 
> working title for HBP btw was 'When Harry met Sally'.
> 
> It's no good, I fear the worst but at night I dream that Neville is 
> DD's 'sleeper' agent and Harry is a patsy, Snape is Petunia's sex 
> slave, Kneasy is going to write a book.........zzzzzzzzzz
> 

'When Harry met Sally', what a cheek. I grabbed that one last year
in a desperate search to find subject lines that sound vaguely
interesting or familiar. That was about the scar IIRC. The phrase
'magically induced schizophrenia' lurches to the surface. Hm.

Now we've been told there are clues to the importance of the
Chamber in book 6. So - Harry re-enters, finds clues to what old
Sally was up to, grabs hold of the wrong end of the stick (as usual),
a modicum of deaths ensue, Harry angst +++, blames everybody 
else, stiffens upper lip, resolves to do better in book 7.
Sounds reasonable.

Sally as HBP? Could be - it's as likely as any other suggestion that's
been offered. Wouldn't be *too* unbearable if Tom got split off
from Sally and got shoved through the veil babbling repentance. 
Just so long as the Sally remnants fights tooth and nail to the end. 
Blood, guts and ectoplasm everywhere. DD, Snape and a bunch of 
Weasleys cop it in the neck. Plus Dobby. Plus Luna. And that 
irritating midget Creevy. The DEs get sentenced as permanent 
test-beds for experimental potions and spells - might as well 
get some use out of 'em, they can pay their debt to  society by
being lab rats. And if Hermione got her frontal lobes fried.... but 
that's asking too much, I'm afraid. Pity. It might shut her up.
We deserve a bit of the old cathartic release, I think.

But fear not. If the worst  comes to worst we have the technology,
the imagination, the sheer brass neck to reconstruct the HP plot-
lines into a BANGier format. Such a pity that we can't actually enter
the story a la Thursday Next and influence it from the inside.

Kneasy