GOF as Mystery Novel

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 9434

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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!"

In Chap 25 we learn that Barty Crouch is sneaking around Hogwarts - 
in Chap 28 we learn that Crouch the elder is as mad as a hatter ere 
he vanishes for good  - in Chap 30 we learn that Crouch the Elder's 
same-named son was condemned to life imprisonment for supporting 
Voldemort. Probably too subtle for any first-time readers to pick up 
on (definitely too subtle for me), but it does show JKR planting the 
clues necessary to ID the true culprit.


    - CMC