[HPforGrownups] Re: What was the Plot-Hole? JKR answers

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 18339

At 08:29 PM 5/7/01 +0000, Amy Z wrote:
>I had to pull a character. There you go: "the phantom character of
>'Harry Potter."' She was a Weasley cousin [related to Ron
>  Weasley, Harry's best friend]. She served the same function that Rita
>Skeeter [a sleazy investigative journalist] now serves. Rita was
>  always going to be in the book, but I built her up, because I needed
>a kind of conduit for information outside the school. Originally,
>  this girl fulfilled this purpose.

It's still not clear what the hole is... Why couldn't "Icicle" (her rumored
name) have been the "faithful servent at Hogwarts"?  Then Moody could
have been Moody and everything would have made sense.  Is the problem
that it has to have been someone who could have put his name in the GoF?
But she could have, if she was old enough to be a Judge or Tournament
organizer.  (She'd probably have to be to be a Death Eater.)



                         -- Dave