What Dumbledore (doesn't) knows

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No: HPFGUIDX 18318

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cait Hunter" <kiary91 at h...> wrote:
> >What's even odder is that for almost a year somebody was
> >impersonating a good friend of his, under his very nose, in very
> >close quarters, and he didn't spot it. The wise, intuitive
> >Dumbledore. Let me join Rosmerta (I think) in suggesting that JKR
> >switched to the False Moody solution after writing large chunks of
> >the story with Moody being the real Moody. The False Moody solution
> >is so mechanical. It's the one thing in the books that really jars
> >me. Much more than all the little flints we keep dredging up.
> >
> >Naama
> 
> 
> How well *did* Dumbledore know Moody? M-E's behavior is erratic ane 
> eccentric, but since we haven't really seen the real M-E, do we 
know that 
> it's at all out of character? Perhaps C, JR is simply a great actor?
> 
> 
> Cait

Yes. That is the only answer, on the face of it. But it's a very 
unsatisfying answer, don't you think? It's the "the butler did it!" 
kind of solution - pick the least likely character and make him the 
murderer. With no build up. That's what I call a mechanical solution, 
and since JKR is not given to that kind of plotting, I can only 
assume that she made this major plot change at a late stage, after a 
lot of (real) Moody stuff was already written. 

Well, just my IMHO, of course. I'm not going to be voted off, right?

Naama