[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 19

[Christina Gross]

No: HPFGUIDX 5868

On 16.11.2000 at 21:54:12 Pippin wrote:

>	One other thing we learn in this chapter about Moody is that he 
>only drinks from his hip flask and eats only food he's prepared 
>himself. I suppose what we should notice, if we are avid mystery 
>readers, is that our attention and suspicion are being directed
>toward Karkaroff, and on that basis we should indeed think there
>might 
>be something dodgy about Moody. I, however, was caught flat footed
>on 
>first reading as usual. Did anybody start being suspicious at this 
>point?

I sure didn't. I suspected Karkaroff to be a red herring, but Moody's
true identity caught me completely by surprise. It wasn't so much
that he tried to help Harry what fooled me. That could have been a
plan to ensnare him, after all. But when the false Moody comforted
Neville I filed him under "good guys" because it was such a
Lupin-esque thing to do. I wonder if Rowling let Lupin pave the way
for the reader's trusting Moody on purpose or id that is something
that just came up as she wrote.

Greetings
Christina

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