Views on clues Re: A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[pippin_999]

> Kneasy:
> Coded? And I thought I was paranoid.
> Why on earth would she 'code' replies?
> Code only works if there's a designated receiver with an 
unscrambler. 
 But yes, the trick is to ferret out some sort of reasonable 
conclusion from what may be a deliberately obscure reply.
> 
> However, I fail to see how "I don't think so" could be classed as
> an obscure answer.

Pippin:
It's the 'Erm.' That's not a transcription of a  verbal mumble, it 
was  deliberately typed.  We should be asking ourselves why 
she indicated she was uncomfortable. And why she didn't 
explain further, as she usually does when she quashes a theory. 


The designated receivers are those  who have already solved 
the puzzles. She has said that we have all the clues we need. 

IMO, the unscrambler is 'A Treatise of Equivocation'  -- a Jesuit 
manual found among the effects of one of the Guy Fawkes 
conspirators. I haven't found an online text, but the idea was that 
Catholics of that era considered it a sin to lie under oath, but 
decided that it was okay to mislead their interrogators as long as 
God could tell what they really meant.  The treatise detailed the 
ways in which God could tell. 

(  I  wouldn't be surprised to learn that in JKR's world, old Guy 
was prosecuted as a wizard conspirator, not a Catholic one, a 
fact later obscured as part of the separation between the worlds. 
So it's really a wizard that's being burned in effigy every 
November 5 -- no wonder the wizards still think Muggles have it 
in for them!) 

Kneasy:
> I class the vampire denial on a par with Mark Evans; an answer 
that can only be read one way. 

Pippin:
That's where we differ (see above.) 


> Kneasy:
> Nah. Lupin ain't ESE.
> Tsk, tsk, tsk. I can see you still haven't got the hang of this. 
> Just 'cos he helped Sirius through the veil doesn't mean he's 
bad.
It was *Sirius* that was ESE.<

Pippin:
::grin:: okay, so if JKR gives only straight answers, how do you 
account for all those buckets of tears and  her website statement 
that she likes Sirius?

Pippin