[HPforGrownups] Convolutions of plot (was Re: Crouch / Moody)

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 9531


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at bccs.org>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Convolutions of plot (was Re: Crouch / Moody)


> 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
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> HPforGrownups-unsubscribe at egroups.com
>
>
>
>