Plot holes in GoF/Asking JKR One Question

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No: HPFGUIDX 32397

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> OK.  Try again.  How about this?  Suppose in the original plot there 
> is no Crouch Jr. at all.  Instead, the evil DE who kidnaps Moody and 
> impersonates him is going to be this Weasley cousin character.  A 
> nice plot twist is in the making -- a loyal, trusted Weasley is going 
> to turn out to be evil.  Bwahahahaha!  JKR is writing along happily.  
> There's no Winky, no House Elf Liberation Front, no Crouch-Jr-In-The-
> Pensieve, maybe even no Pensieve at all.  Instead, the evil Weasley 
> is impersonating Moody and feeding stories to the Daily Prophet (the 
> stories Rita Skeeter wrote in the final version of GoF).  GoF would 
> have been a straightforward PoA-length book.
> 
> Then one day, JKR is writing "The Egg and the Eye."  Harry is 
> sneaking around with the Marauder's Map, and it occurs to JKR that 
> she has totally forgotten to account for the fact that the Marauder's 
> Map will reveal that fake Moody will show up on the Map 
> as "Weasley".  This is a huge blunder that blows the plot wide open.

I like it I like it!  I do think it works quite well for our purposes.
 Only, when pondering what the original story might have been, it
seems a little weak for a JKR work, don't you think?  I don't know, I
guess I find it a bit cheesy to have the Weasley cousin be the spy. 
Also, something for you to chew on, Cindy: Rita Skeeter existed with
JKR before she even started writing PS.  If Rita Skeeter is almost
absent in the hypothesized-original GoF, where did she fall in in
JKR's mind?  Maybe the Weasley cousin fed stories to Rita, and that's
her role, but that still seems rather diminished to me.
 
> That causes me to think of a mildly interesting discussion question:  
> if listies could think of one and only one question for JKR, what 
> would that question be?  (And don't try to sneak in a compound 
> question, because she won't answer multi-part questions. <bg>)  Feel 
> free to speculate about what the answer to the question might be.

Easy.  "/Exactly/ WHY did Voldemort want to kill James and Harry?"
No dodging the question by saying something like, "Well he wanted to
kill James for this reason" and then not answer the rest of the
question. ;-)  I would be content with my one question, so long as
there was a long line of other people with other questions behind that
I could also hear the answers to! (is that cheating? <vbg>)

-Megan