Moodys age

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 19801

OK, here's a point I came upon when reading Amys excellent synopsis 
of PoA chapter 10, and considering with it the recent descussions of 
JKR rewrite of GoF to replace Davey Gudgeon with Moody.

Lupin says that shortly after the Whomping Willow was planted, a boy 
named Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye to it. Lupin says that the 
tree was planted the same year he first went to hogwarts (makes 
sense, considering it was planted to protect his wolf-time lair). For 
Davey Gudgeon to have had an incident with the tree he must have been 
in the same year as, or younger than Lupin. I don't see Moody as 
being the same age or younger as Lupin. It seems to me that Moody was 
an experienced Auror during the post-Voldemort trials, due to his 
presence there, and his reparte with Dumbledore at the time. Also, 
Moody was retired in PoA, hence he must have been alot older than 
Lupin. It seems, therefore, unlikely to me that Davey Gudgeon was 
simply a replacement for Moody following a JKR rewrite.

For her to have rewritten such an important character, and include 
such details as the post-voldemort trials, I doubt she would have 
missed some of the other ommisions that members put down to that.

The pensieve chapter, and the fact that Moody originally brought 
Karkarof in both seem, to me, to indicate that he is alot older than 
Lupin, which, to me, discounts the idea that this character Davey 
Gudgeon was the original Moody.



Dai