Karkaroff's hesitation WAS(Re: Moody -- "Types"--Where Are the)

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No: HPFGUIDX 34076

I wrote:

> > Karkaroff is, IMO, quite possibly Rowling's least
> > sympathetic character to date.  Just about the only nice thing 
> > I can think to say about him is that he did, at least, seem to 
> > suffer from a brief moment of inner turmoil right before he 
> > fingered Snape to the ministry.  That's about it, really.

Eileen wrote:

 > Hmmmm.... and I read that as. "Let me think. What else have I 
 > got? Is it time to play the Snape card?" I don't think he had 
 > even a BRIEF moment of inner turmoil. 

<laughs>  You're probably right.  

Although wouldn't you think that the guy in the Department of 
Mysteries (Rookwood?  Was that his name?) would have been his 
real ace in the hole, rather than young Snape?  I mean, a mole 
in the Department of Mysteries?  Wow.  That's *good.*  Hard to 
trump that, really.  I doubt that he was holding back Snape's 
name for any strategic reasons.  

But you're probably right that he wasn't really conflicted 
there at all, just desperately ransacking his his mind for 
any other names that might help his cause.

I just thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt, seeing
as how I was trying to think of *something* nice to say about
the man.  You know what I am.  Always extending the benefit 
of the doubt to the dregs of society.  ;)

   -- Elkins