Fire at the Baudelaire Mansion

[lauren]

Please give me other ideas on who could have burnt it down and why

[Dante]

That discussion is also sort-of going on in here:

asoue.proboards11.com/index.cgi?board=future&thread=1113129334&action=display&start=0

So I'll allow this thread to remain if people only post their opinions and don't try to argue with each other. No debates.

[PJ]

All signs point to Olaf, so i'm going with him.

[Antenora]

I concur with PJ--all the evidence points in Olaf's direction.

However, I don't completely deny the possibility of Esme's involvement, or the possibility that various allies of Olaf helped him start the fire. But Olaf was certainly the driving force behind it.

[Hooky]

Olaf, definitely.

[Carma]

Yeah, Olaf even addmitted it in the wide window.

[PJ]

sadako said:

Yeah, Olaf even addmitted it in the wide window.

Really? Quote?

[Antenora]

After Mr. Poe had listed the crimes Olaf had comitted, Olaf added "And arson". Note, however, that this doesn't necessarily prove he burnt down the Baudelaire mansion(although the other evidence points toward that.)

[SnicketFires]

I voted Olaf, but I agree that Esmé must have had some involvement.

[PJ]

Antenora said:

After Mr. Poe had listed the crimes Olaf had comitted, Olaf added "And arson". Note, however, that this doesn't necessarily prove he burnt down the Baudelaire mansion(although the other evidence points toward that.)

Oh, ok.

[Voldemort'sChild45]

I don't know i just took a guess.

[darkangel667]

Alright, who said Lemony? Can't you see he's writing these books to prove that he didn't?

[jcgsebald]

darkangel667 said:

Alright, who said Lemony? Can't you see he's writing these books to prove that he didn't?

I think a guest who has not read a single book of ASOUE put it down.

[Ennui]

Excellent. Mystery solved. Good to know you were on the case of that vital question.

[RockSunner]

darkangel667 said:

Alright, who said Lemony? Can't you see he's writing these books to prove that he didn't?

I once saw a short fanfiction in which Lemony is the real criminal and Olaf is innocent, and all the books are lies to frame Olaf. I don't expect anything like that in the real series, though.