My theory~survivor of the fire!!!

[Page Turner]

I don't have time to read all what you guys said, sorry. I just wanna say that I tink COunt Olaf visited the Baud's house and set it on fire when they weren't in the room.

He did it because (SPOILERS)


He (and also we have been led to believe) thinks that the Baudelaire parents, Bertrand and (the mom) killed his parents with poisoned darts. He did it out of revenge. And then he found out about the fortune, or he even already knew about it, and decided that they owe it to him anyway, so THERE!

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

I like your signature. Also, the theory is good.

[freddiethefrog]

i haven't read most of it either...im sorry. i've always thought that Olaf burnt down the Baudelaire manson as it was considered a safe place, as with the Quagmires and the Snickets, therefore helping rid the world of such locations. Perhaps the Baudelaires were holding some sort of meeting, which is why the children were sent to Briny Beach. I dunno, any thoughts? Sorry if it's a bit off subject.

[Dante]

I once read a theory where the Building Committee meeting from the U.A. actually took place in the Baudelaire mansion on the day of the fire. Personally, I don't think there was a meeting there that day, although it would increase the list of people who would count as survivors of that fire.

[lauren]

That is an interesting theory and I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. The transcript does seem rather burnt itself, and at the end of it Olaf showed something to the volunteers, matches perhaps?
The only downfall is that the meeting supposedly took place in a building without green wood where as the Baudelaire mansion was made from green wood wasn't it?

[Antenora]

I don't think anyone at the Building Committee meeting said that they were meeting in a building not made of green wood. They just said they'd stopped painting their meeting places green. To me, the fact that they were painting things green in the first place implies that they'd stopped using green wood. We know that the Baudelaire, Quagmire, and Snicket mansions are made of green wood, and so is part of Hotel Denouement.

[twistedbrain]

I thought they just used green wood, and didn't paint them green. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

[chabo]

I think that one of the baudelaire parents survived the fire coz how would the authorities (or who ever it is) of know that there was a visitor over during the fire?

[freddiethefrog]

i don't understand. if one of the baud parents survived the fire, they definately should have heard about their children from other V.F.Der's shouldn't they? Wouldn't they try to contact them in some way?

[Dante]

As the Baudelaires speculated in I think TCC, maybe they have tried. But the Baudelaires have been so elusive, hiding in obscure corners of the world and wearing disguises, that it's been enormously difficult to track them down.

There is the problem of whether or not they should have been able to contact some other volunteers who would have been able to contact other volunteers who would have been able to contact the children, though. But you could probably get around that fairly easy - all the telephone poles chopped down, so hard to tell who's a volunteer and who's a villain, etc.

This is just hypothetical, incidentally. I'm not sure whether there is a surviving Baudelaire parent or not. The evidence could go either way.