Evil Overlord Scorecard

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24737

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at j...> 
wrote:
> "but I'll raise it to a B to reflect the degree of difficulty of 
finding
> another way to do the scene"
> 
> Mad-Eye Moody could have tried to kill Harry immediately upon 
entering
> the office without any explanations, and Dumbledore could've arrived
> right away, and stupefied Moody/Crouch, and Moody/Crouch could have 
told
> the whole story under the Veritaserum, instead of half to Harry and 
half
> under the Veritaserum.
> 
> HOWEVER, the blabbling is essential to the plot, because we were all
> DUMBFOUNDED when we thought Moody was the DE masterminding it all. 
Also,
> Moody wanted to hear all the details from Harry before killing him. 
He
> wanted to know how the Dark Lord had treated the traitors. So he 
had to
> talk. Maybe not all of it, but much of it. additionally, I think he
> relished the idea of torturing Harry; seeing his reaction upon 
thinking
> it was the Auror Moody whodunit. In a moment, after Harry will be 
killed,
> he will have no one to gloat to about his accomplishments, for tthe
> Hogwarts Management will swarm in and surround him. He needs to 
unburden
> six months of bursting secrecy to SOMEONE, right now, that the 
climax
> that has been building up all year which is choking him. And the 
first
> and presumably the best targe to throw it at, is Harry.
> 
> I am puzzled though, why it took Dumbledore so long to arrive -- 
couldn't
> he or McGonagall have followed him instantly? Harry and Moody were 
there
> quite long.

I think it took Dumbledore time get to Mooney/Harry because Mooney 
said he was going to the hospital wing, so Dumbledore may have gone 
there first; Snape and McGonnagle are patrolling the outside of the 
maze, so Dumbledore has to find them; Diggory's parents are rushing 
over, so Dumbledore has to put them off somehow.

With all of that, I guess it's a miracle that Dumbledore gets there 
in time at all.  :)

Cindy

> 
> Can someone also explain to me how the Foe-glass works? It was never
> quite explained and I have a hard time understanding it.