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

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> 
> 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



Most of the time, the best way to hide is not to hide at all. When 
it's in your face, you tend to overlook it. And JK is indeed clever 
to use that certain fact of life. :)

~Lexan