Clodhopping Plot Cliches (WAS Snape's spying career)

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 36508

David wrote:

>I don't believe JKR 
> intends do anything so obvious as send Snape back to Voldemort.  
>That 
> would be up there with Harry being the last descendent of 
Gryffindor, 
> or Harry's blood vitiating Voldemort's powers, or Pettigrew diving 
in 
> front of V's last blast at Harry, for clodhopping plot cliche.

Sorry to be so late in responding to this post, but David got me 
thinking.  There must be many things that JKR could do in the next 
three books that are so trite and so stunningly obvious that they 
rise to the level of the Clodhopping Plot Cliche.  

But what are they?  JKR has already ruled out the Star Wars "Luke, 
I'm your father" plot twist.  One possible cliche could be Peter's 
silver hand and its potential to kill Lupin.  Pretty darn obvious, 
that.  On the other hand, how can JKR avoid using Peter's hand in 
this fashion?  She certainly set it up, after all.  Won't we be 
terribly disappointed if nothing comes of it?

Are there other potential Clodhopping Plot Cliches?  Snape as 
vampire?  Snape returns to spying?  

On a related topic, are we in agreement that there weren't many 
Clodhopping Plot Cliches in the first 4 books?  I can't think of any 
at the moment, which gives me some comfort that JKR won't sink to 
using obvious cliches in the last three books.  

Thoughts?

Cindy (who desperately wants Professor Trelawney and her Inner Eye to 
start dating Moody and his Magical Eye)