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Post by lsandthebooks on Sept 6, 2019 17:52:34 GMT -5
Maybe the fire was just used to destroy their already dead bodies...
I thought it was interesting how Klaus in Book 13, tells Olaf that Olaf made them orphans. Klaus doesn't say anything about the fire, only that Olaf killed their parents. And Olaf denies that he killed them. But no one mentions the fire.
So I was thinking, that maybe Olaf did burn the Baudelaire mansion (after all, he loves setting things on fire). But he didn't kill their parents...Olaf is the kind of person who would brag to the kids that he killed their parents. Olaf has never hidden the fact that he's willing to kill.
So how else could the parents have died that day? Well, I wonder if Book 13 parallels how the parents died. The Baudelaire kids almost die from being poisoned to death, and they almost die on a beach.
So what if in Book 1, the parents were poisoned early in the morning (not with the mushrooms but with any kind of poison) and they felt the effects of the poison, so they sent their kids away to the beach so they wouldn't be infected too? That would also be very similar to the islanders leaving and abandoning the kids at the beach in Book 13, after everyone was poisoned.
What do you think about this?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 6, 2019 21:35:40 GMT -5
I think the Incendiary side didn't know about the existence of the deadly fungus MM. In this case, the question would be the same as always in essence: "Who killed them? Are they really dead? Do fires make dead bodies totally disappear? Is the Snicket File really talking about the survival of one Baudelaire parent?"
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Post by Foxy on Sept 7, 2019 9:07:53 GMT -5
But he didn't kill their parents...Olaf is the kind of person who would brag to the kids that he killed their parents. Olaf has never hidden the fact that he's willing to kill. I agree with you on this point. But I don't think the parents were poisoned. Although it is an interesting theory.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 7, 2019 11:09:19 GMT -5
Maybe the police report had a typo and it should have said "arsenic" instead of "arson". Or maybe all that's important for the story is that their death was not an accident.
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