New member

[Parker Brown Nesbit]

No: HPFGUIDX 9871

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Joe McCauley <mccauley at d...> wrote:
> New member here - been lurking a few days, and I think I know how 
the Dursleys
> felt when they were inundated by owls.  How will I ever get all 
this mess 
> cleaned off my computer.  In fact I doubt if I'll be able to stick 
around
> long - I used to participate in another fan list that generated 
only about a
> fourth the traffic of this one, and my wife complained that I spent 
too much
> time on it.  
> 
> A couple of thoughts after recently finishing GoF.  First, what's 
the deal
> with Cornelius Fudge?  I can think of three possibilities:
>  - He's an ally of Voldemort
>  - He's under some sort of curse that prevents him from considering 
the 
>    possibility that Voldemort has returned
>  - He really is just the stubborn, closed-minded mule he seems to be
> 
> One thing really bugs me about GoF.  It seems to me that all Crouch 
("Moody")
> had to do to deliver Harry to Voldemort was to turn some object 
into a 
> portkey and get Harry to touch it.  Even that wouldn't have been 
necessary
> if he could have gotten a sample of Harry's blood (possibly under 
the guise 
> of some DAtDA lesson so no one would have been the wiser) and 
brought it to
> Voldemort.  Granted, the latter wouldn't have given Voldemort the 
opportunity
> to kill Harry himself, but it has the advantage of allowing 
Voldemort to 
> return without anyone finding out, at least until "Moody's" true 
identity is
> found out or one of the other Death Eaters spills the beans on 
him.  Given 
> these two possibilities, why go to all the trouble to get Harry 
entered into
> the tri-wizard tournament, help him along to survive and win 
without raising
> anyone's suspicions, least of all Harry's, and make sure he's the 
first to 
> touch the cup?  Seems like a pretty roundabout, overly complicated 
way of
> doing things if you ask me.
> 
> Sorry if this has been beaten to death already. 
> 
> --
> Joe McCauley
> "What if Rudolph had been an elephant instead of a reindeer?"

Crouch/Moody had to wait until the Triwizard Tournament because 
Voldemort's "re-imbodiment" had to take place in the graveyard where 
his father was buried. He (Voldy) was waiting until the "time was 
right."  All three pieces of the re-imbodiment puzzle had to work 
just so.   Plus, it's a darn good cliffhanger!  For me, it read 
naturally.  Nothing ever seems forced or contrived in Jo's books--
maybe that's just a serious case of suspension of disbelief on my 
part.  

Parker 

Parker