bad happenings at St.Mungo's

[pandora315]

Has anyone else thought about who left the devils snare and how they have an in at St. Mungo's? In OotP a "very old, stooped wizard with a hearing trumpe who shufflest" visits Bode. I can't decide who I think it is but I've narrowed it down to two- either Nott (a death eater who is a "stooped figure" in Goyles shadow, or (my pick) Perkins from Arthurs office who is "a stooped, timid-[i]looking old wizard" who also has lumbago (GoF). Is it possible that the ministry uses Mungo's to cover things up? After all the Fountain proceeds go to Mungo's.

Interesting side note- I just came up with this last night and its stretchng it a bit BUT- Mungos= Gum Nos= Gum Knows- as in maybe Droobles knows the truth about the cover up????

[pandora315]

Sorry for the double post but I noticed the text didn't italicize my word. I meant to emphasize looking in timid-looking, because I don't think that description is coincidental. Maybe he's not that timid at all......

[Athena Appleton]

Nope, I'd rather stick to my theory that Perkins is married to Mrs. Figg (he's never called "Mr. Perkins", only "Perkins"... go see "another mrs. figg theory")

Nott could, I guess, be the guy, but he'd have had to have been one old dude when he got with his wife and had a baby, because Nott's son is a Slytherin younger (I think) than Harry and Co. (look in, I think, the last chapter, Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and a kid with the last name Nott are angry)

[pandora315]

Yeah, I know, thats one reason I don't think its Nott. But I was looking through some pages I had marked last night and I realised that the owner of Borgin and Bourkes, from Knockturn Alley, is stooped as well. SO I don't know now. But I always thought he would play a bigger part, and even that KNockturn Alley would play a bigger part. Why was Hagrid really down there in CoS? Also how come nothing ever happened with that secret chamber in the Malfoys home? THat can't have been thrown in for nothing.

[Athena Appleton]

You know, it's amazing how many characters, if you look for them, are stooped. It's like osteoperosis is more common in wizards than anyone else... Maybe it's cuz they don't use casts to set broken bones, they just "fix 'em"... *shrug*

The deal with the chamber in the Malfoys home could be used again, but I think the scene in Borgin and Burkes was to show us that Malfoy truly is a dark wizard... It's funny, I think there are a lot of little clues that we read, and since we know J.K. Rowling has a habit of using little stuff again, we forget the original purpose of those hints... maybe I'm not making sense, but with this scene in Borgin and Burkes, we gloss over the fact that now we know Malfoy is a dark wizard and has bad stuff, kinda forget that we learned that... *shrug*

[Meg Boyd]

You know, it just wouldn't put JKR to have Borgin play a really huge role in the story, even though he had about, what? three lines in his original appearance...he's stooped, he's evil, he could just very well be our man...