Voldemort has a cruel gift for play on words (was Re: My favorite bit of foreshadowing

[Betty]

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Zoe Hooch: 	

zoehooch wrote:
> 
> I just started my god-knows-how-many-th rereading of Goblet of file,
> and was struck by this sentence:
> 
> From Chapter 1(UK Adult edition, p. 15)
> 
> Voldemort speaking "... you will have your reward, Wormtail. I will
> allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my
> followers would give their right arm to perform ..."
> 
> And then, from Chapter 32 (same edition, p. 556-557)
> 
> "And now Wormtail was whimpering. He pulled a long, thing, shining
> silver dagger from inside his robes. His voice broke into petrified
> sobs. 'Flesh -- of the servent-- w-willing given -- you will --
> revive -- your master.'
> 
> He stretched his right hand out in front of him -- the hand with the
> missing finger. He gripped the dagger very tightly in his left and
> swung it upwards."
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You could also add here Voldemort's pun in Ch. 33.  He is quite cruel
and ironic.  The reason I kept all the post above is that it can be seen
there.  "and for that, you will have your reward, Wormtail. I will allow
you
to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would
give their right hands to perform..." ...


"Flesh - of the servant - w-willingly given - you will - revive -
your master. "

    He stretched his right hand out in front of him - the hand with
the missing finger. He gripped the dagger very tightly in his left
hand and swung it upward." ...


"Well, one of them was already at hand, was it not,
Wormtail?"
Not only does the first quote forshadow the osecond, as Zoehooch pointed
out above, but has it struck anyone else how Ironic Voldemort's use of
"at hand" is?  Has anyone else got examples of Voldemort's irony?

But back to the original foreshadowing question.  Moody/Crouch, as
someone else pointed out, was showing off in the whole book.  He
basically confessed, as we later find out, in the chamber off the great
hall (Ch. 17).
"It would have needed an exceptionally strong Confundus
Charm to bamboozle that goblet into forgetting that only three
schools compete in the tournament.. . . I'm guessing they submitted
Potter's name under a fourth school, to make sure he was the only
one in his category.. ."

Let me clarify here.  He didn't *confess*.  But he did pretty much
outline how he did it, and we never noticed it. *Very* clever on JKR's
part.

Betty