Also on rita skeeter, they either memory charmed her into believing everything herself, or imperiused her into doing so, or simply used the polyjuice potion to turn it in themselves. My money would be memory charming her because it would be the most practical reliable way of getting her to believe everything, writing an authentic article and convincing her editor to run it the next day as the headliner.
My most plausible hypothesis is that their plan for fooling Rita Skeeter is some incredibly clever black box that Eliezer hasn’t bothered to fill in, even for himself, because it’s simply not that important to the plot to waste time coming up with something suitably clever they might have done. Any attempt to figure out what they did would then be wasted, since the author can’t be dropping clues to an answer he doesn’t even know.
My most plausible hypothesis is that their plan for fooling Rita Skeeter is some incredibly clever black box that Eliezer hasn’t bothered to fill in, even for himself, because it’s simply not that important to the plot to waste time coming up with something suitably clever they might have done.
To be honest that passage didn’t strike me as strong enough to warrant inventing a fake black box. It’s the sort of thing that is only worth putting in there because you’ve thought of a clever way to do it but just coming out with it directly feels slow story wise and it is better to give folks a chance to guess.
My most plausible hypothesis is that their plan for fooling Rita Skeeter is some incredibly clever black box that Eliezer hasn’t bothered to fill in, even for himself, because it’s simply not that important to the plot to waste time coming up with something suitably clever they might have done. Any attempt to figure out what they did would then be wasted, since the author can’t be dropping clues to an answer he doesn’t even know.
If that turns out to be true, I shall be very disappointed in Eliezer.
I know what they did and it shall be revealed.
Keikaku doori.
(TL note: keikaku means plan)
So. It has come to this.
http://xkcd.com/1022/ for those not up on their XKCD.
It can’t be herped.
Excellent.
To be honest that passage didn’t strike me as strong enough to warrant inventing a fake black box. It’s the sort of thing that is only worth putting in there because you’ve thought of a clever way to do it but just coming out with it directly feels slow story wise and it is better to give folks a chance to guess.