'One more death' (was Catlady's portmanteau post)

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

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Catlady:
> dcyasser wrote:
> 
> << "Come Wormtail, one more death and our path to Harry Potter is 
> clear." Who is that intended victim? >>
> 
> My theory is it was supposed to be Crouch Sr, and Barty was supposed 
> to disguise himself as his father and do his thing at Hogwarts only 
> during his official visits about with the Triwizard Tournament (which 
> suggests that one can Polyjuice into the living likeness of a dead 
> person by using hair/whatever that was taken while the person was 
> still alive). My theory is that it was JKR, not Voldie or Wormie, who 
> changed the plan to 1) Barty escaping on his own instead of being 
> rescued by Wormie, and 2) Barty disguising himself as Moody rather 
> than as Senior. I could SAY Voldie changed the plan after Barty 
> escaped to him and told him about Moody having been recruited to LIVE 
> ON CAMPUS, thus a better target.
> 
> Damn! Pippin already said that!


There was a new development in this mystery when this topic was discussed 
last month (when a lot of people were away, I think.)

Just for the record, it turns out that the phrase, 'one more death' occurs 
only in US editions of GoF. In the British, Canadian and Spanish versions 
(and presumably in any other versions translated from the UK text), the 
phrase used is, 'one more curse', which seems to make more obvious sense: 
Crouch Sr. was put under Imperius to allow the escape of his son.

It seems to me to be another example of a pre-publication authorial 
correction which made it into the UK edition, whilst somehow missing the US 
one. But it perhaps suggests either (as Catlady says) that JKR herself 
changed the plot slightly or else that she was anticipating his murder later 
in the book.

Eloise





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