#0484

Hello, @ilovelemonysnicket!

This has been brought up as a possibility over the years. Indeed, there is canonical evidence that Georgina had been performing hypnosis for a long time. She started her practice in Paltryville a long time ago, during Lemony’s childhood.

“There aren’t any optometrists left in town,” Moxie told me. “The closest eye doctor is way over in Paltryville, but she doesn’t have a very good reputation.”[File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, Pinched Creature]

That also makes her supposedly older than Lemony’s generation. So yes, anything’s possible. Why hasn’t Olaf’s side of the Schism put her talents to use more often, you ask?

Well, we first have to remember that book!Georgina does not perform hypnosis on such a large scale as netflix!Georgina. Sir taking advantage oh her brainwashign as a means of social control is a show-only invention. Perhaps she wishes to keep a very low profile and not to give away her most powerful asset unless it’s absolutely necessary. That would at least explain why she set shop in Paltryville, which no one ever visits.

I would also argue that Orwell’s help does not come cheap. Unlike Olaf’s other henchmen and allies, she actually expects a large payment: half of the Baudelaire fortune, no less.

“Please, Dr. Orwell!” Violet cried.“Don’t force my brother to do this terrible thing!”“It is a terrible thing, I know,” Dr. Orwellsaid. “But it’s a terrible thing that the Baudelaire fortune goes to youthree brats, instead of to me and Shirley. We’re going to split the moneyfifty-fifty.”“After expenses, Georgina,” Shirley remindedher.“After expenses, of course,” Dr. Orwell said.[The Miserable Mill, Chapter Twelve]

Gee, from the looks of it, it seems that Olaf had actually paid her to hypnotize Klaus (hence his “after expenses” comment). We have no indication that Olaf gives anything to his henchmen or intends to split the Baudelaire fortune with them, mostly they just expect him to keep them around as an entourage when he acquires a more lavish lifestyle. Hell, even Esme makes no indication that she stroke a fifty-fifty deal with Olaf on the matter, and that’s one of the few people he considers as an equal. He must have been pretty desperate to enlist Orwell in his crew.

Given her minimal involvement with Olaf’s allies, I’m not even sure she belongs to their side of the Schism. With her irreplaceable talents, she can probably afford to occupy a more neutral position (like Olivia). She’s kind of a very expensive mercenary. So no, I doubt that she ever hypnotized anyone just because of V.F.D-related politics. The sad truth that Georgina is just too powerful to get involved in the plot too much. That’s one of the reasons Daniel Handler killed her off, the Baudelaire orphans wouldn’t have stood a chance with an hypnotist at Olaf’s service for the remaining nine books.

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