Convolutions of plot (was Re: Crouch / Moody)

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 9440

I imagine a scene something like this. Voldemort and Wormtail are 
sitting around the campfire there in Albania, bored, whittling 
sticks, passing time. Bertha Jorkins was fun, but that was weeks ago.

Then Voldemort suddenly sits bolt upright, which isn't easy 
considering the little scaly baby thing he is, and Wormtail's 
jacknife slips. Voldemort jumps up and says he has an idea and it's a 
doozy, oh that Harry Potter is going to pay. Wormtail jumps up, 
sucking on his finger and wincing with the pain of the cut he just 
gave himself, and says tell me, oh tell me, this'll be great!

And Voldemort starts telling about the World Cup and the ancient 
magic and the Portkeys and the Goblet of Fire and how they're going 
to kidnap Harry and everything, and as he talks, Wormtail just stares 
at him. When he's finished, the respose is "Okay, all joking aside, 
what's your idea really?"

And ever since that day, Wormtail has been trying to subtly sugges 
that maybe the whole thing is just a teensy bit, well, impossible, 
and that conversation we hear when he suggests using another person 
than Harry (DUH!) is just part of that. 

Maybe when the went to Crouch's and Voldemort got all excited again 
and told  Barty Jr. his nifty idea, the two, Barty and Wormtail 
exchanged "Oh brother what a loony!" looks but didn't dare do 
anything about it. 

That's what I think happened. 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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