[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 19

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In a message dated 11/17/00 12:08:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Changeling at darcy.inka.de writes:

<<  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 if that is something
 that just came up as she wrote. >>
 Delurking here, I still have a hard time with this one. It's isn't so much 
that Moody is an endearing character, or that I wanted to believe good things 
about him. It was more that 
I'd always felt bad for  Neville, and the horror Neville so obvously felt 
after the Unforgivable Curse leson was pretty much the "last straw" for me. 
The time folowing that lesson is also one of the times I've felt closest to 
Hermione, she so quickly tuned in to Neville's feelings.  ( To be a devoted 
H/H shipper I have problems getting close to Hermione, still)
   Some part of me still wants to cling to the idea that a teacher would be 
kind to Neville. And show it, not just out of pity.
~ Circe