[HPforGrownups] Mad-Eye's Unforgivable Class and other thoughts

[Starling]

No: HPFGUIDX 18190

I don't have my copy of GOF in front of me, but IIRC, dumbledore is the one who wants the fourth years to be taught about the unforgivables.  if mad-eye/crouch doesn't go along with dumbledore's lesson plan, he'd be casting suspicion on himself, and making it more likely he'd be discovered before he could put his plan into action.  he *has* to act just as the real mad-eye would, to keep suspicion from falling upon him.

the thing that really gets to me is that he manages to go the entire year without slipping up.  dumbledore, regardless of how he might at times appear, is far from stupid, and would definately notice anything even slightly out of the ordinary, implying, to my mind, that crouch was able to perfectly impersonate mad-eye the entire year.

IM ever so HO, crouch slipped up at least once, before the third task -- like the boomslang skin and **other object whose name escapes me at the moment** stolen from Snape's office -- ingredients for a polyjuice potion.  wouldn't dumbledore hear about something like that?  after all, snape encountered filch while wandering around, and complained that someone was in his office.  if snape didn't say anything to dumbledore, filch most definately would.  

so we have two choices --either dumbledore is aware of the theft and did not realize the signifance of the stolen items, or dumbledore never heard about the theft.
hrm.  i can't see dumbledore missing a thing like that, which would imply that neither snape nor filch informed dumbledore about the theft...
thoughts?

Abbie, who is speaking of fictional characters as if they were real people, and is vastly amused at herself because of it
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: meboriqua at aol.com 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, 03 May, 2001 6:53 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Mad-Eye's Unforgivable Class


  Okay, I know we often preface postings with "I hope this hasn't been 
  discussed a gazillion times before," but... here goes anyway!

  I was just listening to my audio version of GoF (Dale), and I am up to  
  the part where Mad-Eye teaches the Imperius Curse to Harry and his 
  Gryffindor housemates.  If Mad-Eye is not really Mad-Eye, but Death 
  Eater Barty Crouch, Jr, then why would he want anyone from Gryffindor 
  to be able to throw off the curse?  Why did he teach it to them?

  That scene has been bothering me since I finished reading GoF for the 
  first time.  Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

  --jenny from ravenclaw****************************************


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