[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 19

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 5894

OTOH, that comforting of Neville actually proves what a git Crouch Jr. is,
if you think about it.

After all, what did he get sent down for?  Torturing Neville's parents.  He
does that to them, then when confronted with the effect it's had on Neville,
pretends to comfort him solely for the purpose of planting information on
him that will help further his plans for Harry.  No remorse anywhere.

Jinx

----- Original Message -----
From: <EvenCirce713 at aol.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 19


> 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