another puzzle

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Perhaps one of you pieced this together immediately. I haven't.

In the comments on alt_mcgonagall's 17 September Order Only post, Molly Weasley asks McGonagall if Lucius Malfoy asked to see "the book" during his visit to the castle. McGonagall responds: "As for the book - no, he did not. I believe we've duped him - at least this year."


Thoughts?




Aside: the question has been raised (on the previous thread) whether to start threads for each separate topic or whether this community risks developing too many simultaneous conversations. My vote is for making new posts for each separate topic (and for fresh rounds of speculation on old topics after they've lain dormant for a while). I find this helps me navigate the community if I want to find what someone said on a particular issue. For what it's worth (and in anticipation of the day when it becomes an issue for us), I also think it's helpful to keep threads from collapsing to outline by starting a new post to continue the ongoing conversation.

Comments

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Longstrider, up above (http://community.livejournal.com/alt_fen/3354.html?thread=31514#t31514), raises a wonderful theory that Muggleborn children are taken and replaced by changelings, perhaps in good old faerie fashion. Combine that with the Squib-swap theory and we might have something really interesting . . . Maybe we have a complicated swap program, part voluntary and part involuntary.