What Dumbledore (doesn't) knows

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:> Amy 
responded:
> "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."

Yeah, I agree with Amy, too -- all of those have a dose of deux ex 
machina in them. But if you look back at the books, there were hints. 
Certainly none big enough for the reader to really catch on, but they 
were there. In GoF, for instance, in the scene where Harry's 
in "Moody's" office and looking at the Dark Detectors. A bunch of 
them are disabled because they detected deception -- Moody himself. 
For me, Quirrell is the one who came the most out of the blue. He was 
barely involved at all until the end! Riddle didn't surprise me. 
Ginny did. Lupin was planned, and definitely hinted at. Scabbers-
Pettigrew -- well, there was no way for us to know that. But I truly 
do not believe that JKR "writes by the seat of her pants" at all. I 
think she's got them all planned out to the last detail -- she's even 
said so.

Stacy