"One more death" & more on MEM - Bertha at PI - kids' books/shipping from BBC

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 32320

Margaret wrote:

>My wild guess:  JKR originally meant for Crouch Jr. (or whoever)
>to have killed Moody and taken his place, but in the course of
>writing him she decided the character of Moody was Just Too Cool
>and that she wanted to use him (Real!Moody) later.  (And who
>shall blame her?  Certainly not me!)  So she modified the story
>to suit, but missed the correction in the earlier chapter until
>after the book was first published.

Great theory, but unfortunately, the "one more curse" was written first.  
It's the American edition that says "one more murder."  Maybe they thought 
Americans would yawn at a mere curse and need a murder to capture our 
attention?

Barb wrote:

>a) It is possible that Polyjuice Potion only works properly with a person 
>that is alive.

Dumbledore says "they would have needed to keep him alive" (GF 35), but that 
could be just because they'd need to be able to interrogate him when Crouch 
ran up against anything new he needed to know for his impersonation, not for 
the Polyjuice.  Either way, it affects the one more murder/death/curse 
question.

>stunned for months on end (and oddly, not starving to death, but that's 
>another discussion)

He was under Imperius also.  All Crouch had to do was "enervate!" once a 
day, make him eat some soup, and then Stun him again.  Or maybe he wasn't 
Stunned most of the time at all, just happened to be the night of the third 
task (as an extra precaution on Crouch's big night).

Harriet wrote:

>Didn't Bertha also know Harry?  Maybe, she figured out who he was from 
>Cedric, when he said Harry's name.......

Or knew him the same way everyone does, even if they're from Bulgaria: the 
scar on his forehead.

Jon wrote:

>HP as children's book -> A direct quote from JKR's own letter - "Dear Mr. 
>Little, I have written a book intended for 9-12 year olds". Pretty 
>conclusive, no?

No, not to my mind.  A letter to an agent is a sales job.  Besides, she knew 
that the series as a whole (which she had sketched out already) was going to 
get much more adult, so her opinion of PS doesn't tell us her opinion of GF 
or any other book.

>No specific ships were mentioned - none of the H/H rumours are true.

It's interesting that she mentions hormones and whoever writes the capsules 
for the TV schedule assumes she means H/H.  (Of course, these are the same 
people who write about Harry's crush on Cho as if it hasn't happened yet.)

Amy Z

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