Who was Wormtail supposed to murder?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 44443

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "dcyasser" <dcyasser at y...> wrote:

dcyasser wrote:
> Goblet of Fire, in the Riddle House, LV and Wormtail are going over 
> the plan, discussing the next murder that Wormtail is to commit, 
> along with Crouch Jr., that will clear the path to get to Harry. 
> "Come Wormtail, one more death and our path to Harry Potter is
clear." Who is that intended victim?

bboy_mn replies:
Sadly, other versions of this book do not say 'one more death'; I
believe they say 'one more CURSE'. But I think it is safe to assume
that the 'curse' they are referring to, is a death curse. Although,
'curse' could refer to putting Crouch Sr. under the Imperious Curse.
In a sense saying, once we have control of Crouch Sr. our path to
Harry Potter is clear. I believe it is some UK versions that use the
word 'curse'.
 
dcyasser Continues:
> Is it Moody?  Was Crouch supposed to kill him, but kept him alive, as 
> he says, to question him about his past and his habits? 
> And Voldemort doesn't mind the change in plans? Or does he not know 
> about that? 
> 
> "dcyasser"

bboy_mn speculates:
Since Voldemort needs to capture Crouch Sr in order to get Crouch Jr
and have him replace the real Moody, that would make it the next step
in the plan, and we could assume that would make Crouch Sr the next
casualty. He is the next casualty, but whether he is a casualty of the
death curse or the Imperious Curse is not clear. So my guess is Crouch
Sr is who he is referring to.

Since they were both (Crouch & Moody) extremely active in the fight
against Voldemort. I'm pretty sure Big_V intended to kill them both.
So the next question is, which one would most likely die first? I
think it's safe to assume that one will die before Big_V has Harry,
and one will die after. 

In the story, Crouch Sr. dies first, that re-enforces my belief that
he was the intended target. Although, I think the original plan was to
kill him later in the story. They needed Moody so Poly-Moody could
question him. You never know when something might come up at Hogwarts
that would require Poly-Moody to get more information. Dumbledore
might start reminiscening about the past and Poly-Moody would have to
scramble to get some information on that subject. So logically, then
need to keep him around right to the very end.

Crouch Sr. on the other hand, could probably go a week without any
contact, and while people would worry, knowing he was sick would give
them a reasonable explaination for his lack of contact. 

If the plan was death instead of a curse, then considering that
Crouch's presents was less critical, I think they planned to kill him
first, and I think they planned to do it before the Triwizard's
tournement was over.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn