GOF as Mystery Novel, dead Weasley...

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No: HPFGUIDX 9419

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> GOF seems to have many of the elements of a mystery novel, but in 
my opinion it is somewhat flawed as I'll explain below.  
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> Unfortunately, the information provided by the author of GOF is not 
> nearly enough for an intelligent reader to figure out "whodoneit."  
> My own response when Moody admits to being the Bad Guy, was mild 
> disappointment because there was so little evidence given along the 
> way to implicate him.  A good mystery would have the reader 
> saying, "of course it was Moody!"
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> I'm curious if anyone else has looked at GOF in this way.<<<<<<<<<  

Jim, this is all very interesting.  I've not read many mysteries, and 
am nearly always surprised at the revelation of the culprit.  I 
mentioned back when the group was first discussing GoF that the 
Moody/Crouch Jr. revelation just absolutely did not work for me.  
With books 1-3, I remained enthralled to the very end.  With GoF, 
when M/C is revealed, I completely lost my suspension of disbelief.  
This part took me right out of the book, and all I could think 
was "Wha-at?" with incredulity.  Though I haven't found any plot-
holes to make this impossible, it still feels so unconvincingly 
convoluted.  I had not looked at GoF, or the rest of the books in 
general, as 'mysteries', though they certainly are, and I think 
you've made an excellent point.  Perhaps your explanation is what I 
was feeling, but couldn't articulate.  Well said. 

As an unrelated point, I've been meaning to mention this:  There's a 
RUMOR put forth by a person who claims to know JKR that one member of 
the Weasley family will die...

Kelley