What was the Plot-Hole?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18337

Haggridd wrote:
 
> This is the third time that I have heard someone theorizing that JKR 
> originally had Mad-Eye as a real goodguy, and invented Barty Jr., to 
> fill in a hole in the plot, and that the impersonation therfore 
> stands out as poorly crafted.  Does anybody know what that problem 
> was, and what discrepancy the creation of young Crouch corrected?

JKR has said that she ran into a hole in the plot, but she has also 
said that there was a Weasley cousin who got scrapped and replaced 
with Rita Skeeter (JKR needed =someone= to get information outside 
Hogwarts, is what she said, IIRC).  I thought that whatever made her 
switch this around was the gaping plot hole she meant.  Has she said 
anything that makes anyone think the hole had to do with Moody?

Amy Z

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