Goyle missing from DoM (Was:Re: The Good Slytherin)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 85010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
I think I found the
> answer to that very near the end of the first book:
> 
> "Harry had almost forgotten that the exam results were still to 
come,
> but come they did. [...] They had hoped that Goyle, who was almost 
as
> stupid as he was mean, might be thrown out, but he had passed, 
too. It
> was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in 
life."
> 
> So there you have it.  Like son, like father, eh?  Goyle Sr. was 
too
> stupid to be sent on such a sensitive mission!


Jen R.: Here's a little more evidence for annemehr's theory that 
Goyle isn't the sharpest guy:

"And here"--Voldemort moved on to the two largest hooded figures--
"we have Crabbe....you will do better this time, will you not, 
Crabbe? And you, Goyle?"

They bowed clumsily, muttering dully. (GOF, US, chap. 33, p. 651)

So they're clumsy, too! Surely Voldemort hedged his bets that both 
of them in the DOM together, near the prophecy orbs, would be 
disastrous ;).