# Forbidden Forest - Unspoiled Harry Potter Mafia Discussion

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**Created:** [June 27, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-forest-unspoiled-harry-potter-mafia-discussion/544719 "2010-06-27T22:22:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-forest-unspoiled-harry-potter-mafia-discussion/544719/266 "2010-07-29T16:27:26Z")

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Admittedly, I’m a terrible loser, but that sucked. It seemed pretty obvious to me. I guess I should’ve made more noise, but I was already pretty tired of reading my own arguments. I probably deleted more posts than I made the last couple days.

Yes, I had the snitch.

> [@sachertorte](#):
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> My conclusion is that Rysto is Town and that he is mod-confirmed Town. I fully expect someone to reach this conclusion on their own as well.

I would really like to know if scum were thinking along these lines or if they were after **Rysto** on their own.

> [@Harry Potter Mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/618):
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> > [@Harry Potter Mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-mafia/544429/618):
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> > The other is that the Snitch was the thing they handed out to all the contestants in Goblet of Fire, and that Harry had to unlock to hear a message about one of the feats in the tournament, so there’s a precedent for it being a mechanism to pass secret information along.
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> FTR, Jimmy has misremembered. It was a golden egg, not a snitch.

Duh! I was even picturing it as a big golden egg-shaped thing, and it never even occurred to me that that probably wasn’t the tiny little winged snitch. I think I just really wanted it to be an information-carrying mechanism.

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