Okay, how's this for a theory. It's some kind of contagious magical effect, someone carried to the funeral, and someone carried it to the beer garden and it spread from there to Grimmauld... except... Draco hasn't been around any of the relevant parties?
The tricky part is Snape, really, why he would be affected and Draco wouldn't.
I was toying with the theory that it was spreading through the journals, to people private messages were sent to, but that again rules out Draco. Or Barty for that matter (hasn't answered Antonin's).
But maybe they're immune for some reason?
ETA: apparently not immune, in Barty's case. Why everyone but Draco?
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Date: 2014-07-30 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-30 04:20 am (UTC)The tricky part is Snape, really, why he would be affected and Draco wouldn't.
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Date: 2014-07-30 04:40 am (UTC)But maybe they're immune for some reason?
ETA: apparently not immune, in Barty's case. Why everyone but Draco?