Plot Twist Clues (WAS Dumbledore's gleam(long))

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 30763

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Ladjables wrote:
> 
> <snip good analysis of Dumbledore>
> 
> > In each of these situations, the villain usually says, "yep harry, 
> it 
> > was me, I'm the bad guy".  They never slip up or leave clues for 
> > Harry.  We don't ever see Crouch forgetting to take his polyjuice 
> > potion or Quirrel missing his turban, and the turban just seems 
> > comical.   JKR wouldn't have such a wonderful climax if Harry ever 
> > figured out the truth in advance, so misdirection is key.
> > 
> 
> Originally, I thought there were few clues to JKR's big plot twists, 
> particularly Crouch/Moody.  But there actually are many subtle clues, 
> often with just a bit of misdirection.  The misdirection often seems 
> to come in the form of characters disbelieving or discounting the 
> clues.
> 
> The most blatant clue in GoF, IMHO, is when Harry's name comes out of 
> the Goblet of Fire.  Crouch/Moody strolls in and explicitly tells us 
> exactly how he put Harry's name into the goblet:
> 
> "They hoodwinked a very powerful magical object!" said Moody.  "It 
> would have needed an exceptionally strong Confundus Charm to 
> bamboozle that goblet into forgetting that only three schools compete 
> in the tournament . . . I'm guessing they submitted Potter's name 
> under a fourth school, to make sure he was the only one in his 
> category."  
> 
> Then Karkaroff endorses the theory before he calls Moody 
> paranoid:  "You seem to have given this a great deal of thought, 
> Moody . . . and a very ingenious theory it is."
> 
> But we dismiss all of this and don't believe it was Crouch/Moody, 
> possibly because JKR has established him as paranoid, and because it 
> would be too obvious for him to have done it and then tell everyone 
> how it was done.  So she gets away with it.
> 
> Another Crouch/Moody clue is when they are in the cave talking to 
> Sirius.  Ron says that Dumbledore is smart, but that doesn't mean a 
> really clever dark wizard couldn't fool him.  Another one (I think) 
> is when Crouch/Moody turns Draco into a ferret.  McGonagall asks him 
> whether Dumbledore told him transfiguration wasn't to be a 
> punishment, and Crouch/Moody doesn't know this.  This is another clue 
> that he isn't who we think he is.  
> 
> I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any more at the 
> moment.
> 
> Cindy (determined not to be fooled in OoP)

  Good God, me too. At this point, the best plot twist JKR could possibly spring on us would be "Harry Potter and the Hammers of Infinite Perception," in which someone mysteriously sends Harry, Sirius, and Snape a friggin' Clue. ;>