QWC's Coherence II

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No: HPFGUIDX 39062

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> >(As it happens, in GOF we also have a whacking great 
> > coincidence: Barty breaks Imperius and releases the Dark Mark
> > just at  the time that Voldemort is planning to use him, IMO a
> > bit of a weakness in the plot as it gives us a number of valid 
> > clues that are nevertheless incidental to the real conspiracy. 
> > In detective fiction, coincidences should be red herrings.  All 
> > that World Cup stuff is not red herrings but it is a coincidence.)
> 
> Is it? Quite possibly it is. I may be going completely off the
> rails here.  But - why did Winky spend *months* persuading Crouch
> Senior? Why has she gone so completely to pieces? Why does she pull
> Barty not back towards the stand, but into the forest? Why does she
> let out a 'wail of despair' *not* when Barty says that 'She had 
> failed him' [Crouch Sr] (and for a house-elf to fail her master is 
> presented as the worst thing they think they can do) but when he 
> says 'She had *almost* let me escape'. [my emphasis] (p. 593 - 
> 5600, GoF, UK hardback)

I'm working on a theory that all the stuff at QWC was *intended* as 
red herrings (or background info, such as the name Death Eater). 
Until she re-jiggered the plot to fix the infamous plot hole. I wrote 
about it in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/38421