Merlin's Left What? / Hogwarts Transportation Security / One More Curse

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:

Catlady: 
> > Do you think it was that LV didn't know yet that DD had 
> > called on Moody to guard Harry for the Tournament year? 
> > So he thought he had to deal only with with Crouch Sr?
 
zanooda: 
> According to the book, he knew :-). He found out about Moody's new job from Bertha Jorkins. Barty Jr said so in "Veritaserum" chapter: "She told him the old Auror, Moody, was going to teach at Hogwarts" (p.687 Am.ed.) :-).

Geoff:
I don't think that it follows absolutely that he knew that Moody 
was there to guard Harry; you might pick it up as an implication:

'"My master had found out that I was still alive. He had captured 
Bertha Jorkins in Albania. He had tortured her. She told him a great 
deal. She told him  about the Triwizard Tournament. She told him 
the old Auror, Moody, was going to teach at Hogwarts. He tortured 
her until he broke through the Memory Charm my father had placed 
upon her. She told him I had escaped from Azkaban. She told him 
my father kept me imprisoned to prevent me from seeking my 
master."'
(GOF "Veritaserum" p.597 UK edition)

JKR uses the phrase "she told him" five times. It doesn't follow that 
these are all interrelated pieces if information. It could be that Moody 
was merely taking up the ill-starred post of DADA teacher...

In the next sentence but one, Crouch says "My master conceived a 
plan". Could it be that the scheme began from there?