Moodys age

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Dai Evans" <dwe199 at s...> wrote:
> 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

 Not quite what I meant. I don't think I implied that JKR replaced 
Davey Gudgeon with Moody.
 I was just pointing out that before GoF was even published JKR said 
in an interview that the new DADA teacher would have a magic eye and 
therefore a number of us rushed to the the 3 books that were 
published at the time and though: Ah ha Davey Gudgeon lost an 
eye/nearly lost an eye I bet he got a new magic eye and he's the next 
DADA teacher. But then GoF came out and that theory was proved to be 
wrong. So at the moment Davey is just a red herring.
 Sorry if I confused anyone else.

 Jen