Can One Solve GoF?

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 39054

First of all, I've never heard of anyone doing it. But I've heard 
lots of people say that the end of GoF is no fair, that we have no 
way of figuring out what is happening. 

Pippin suggests that we don't have a right to figuring that out, 
since Harry never does either. These are not really ordinary 
mysteries, where the detective eventually follows the clues to their 
conclusions, and we should not expect it to function like an ordinary 
mystery.

However, it seems to me, after much thought, that GoF is very 
solveable, if one had paid attention to all the details.

The detail to latch on to and never let go was Snape's accusation 
that someone was stealing boomslang from the cupboard. Everything 
else could have meant a million different things, but the "boomslang" 
was proof that polyjuice was involved. So, how did we breeze over 
that? Assumed that for some reason Snape was still ranting over the 
CoS incident? No, that clue should have left the reader 100% sure 
that someone in the story was polyjuiced. Add that to Sirius' 
confirmation that Moody was attacked, Moody's breaking into Snape's 
office, and half the puzzle would have been solved.

As for Moody's true identity, I can't believe how stupid I was to 
skip over as a mere unimportant detail the fact that Crouch had a son 
with the exact same name. But, oh well....

Eileen