What Dumbledore (doesn't) knows

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18330

Cait wrote:

> > 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?

No doubt he is--he gave one heck of a performance at age 19, at his 
trial--but to deceive someone's longtime friend for a year goes beyond 
great acting.  You have to do much more than be in character; you 
have to know all the right things and know what things the person 
wouldn't know.  How could you possibly do it if you didn't even 
know the person you're impersonating (and Jr. can't know Moody well)?

Maybe Dark Wizards have a way to see into one another's characters 
that Muggles don't have, so that Crouch has more ways of getting the 
knowledge he needs than just interrogating Moody.

Naama wrote:
 
> 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. 

This is where we will all just have to speculate until the publication 
of the Rowling Notebooks(TM), but I'd bet Galleons to gherkins that 
Moody=Crouch was worked out long before book 4 was written.  It is a 
far-fetched solution because of the Dumbledore problem, but it's no 
more un-built-up-to than Quirrell's the bad guy, or Riddle's bad and 
Ginny's opening the Chamber, or Sirius is good-Scabbers is 
Pettigrew-Lupin's a werewolf, IMO.

Amy Z

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   "Hagrid, look what I've got for relatives!" Harry
 said furiously.  "Look at the Dursleys!"
   "An excellent point," said Professor Dumbledore.
                          -HP and the Goblet of Fire 
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