What was the Plot-Hole? JKR answers

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No: HPFGUIDX 18353

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, Amy, but it really doesn't address the theory 
> raised by you in message #18330, or by Andrea in #18328, about Mad-
Eye 
> originally intended simply to be a goodguy DADA teacher, and a plot 
> hole necessitated creating the Barty Crouch, Jr. substitution for 
> Moody.  JKR herself says that this other plot hole with the Weasley 
> cousin was solved by utilizing Rita Skeeter.  I'm still totally at 
> sea.  Help!
> 
> Haggridd

It's the other way around - we (I) assumed that there was a plot hole 
necessitating the change BECAUSE there are problems with the False 
Moody solution. For my part, the worst problem is the 
unreasonableness of Crouch hoodwinking Dumbledore for so long. 

However, both Amy Z and Scot have countered with perfectly good 
arguments why the False Moody solution was planned. I especially 
liked Scot's argument - that otherwise JKR wouldn't have introduced 
polyjuice in CoS. (Although, just to be annoying, I might argue that 
it was somebody else (Icicle?) who was intended to be polyjuiced..).

Naama