[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is it that Wormtail is supposed to murder, in GoF?

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81562

From: "dcyasser"

> This topic has been debated at length, but there are always new
> theories.  Somewhere in some interview, and I'll look for it if I
> find the time, JKR said she had intended to kill off Mad-Eye Moody,
> but she liked his character so much she kept him instead. That, to
> me, suggests that Moody was the one who was supposed to be killed in
> GoF, when he is attacked by Wormtail and Crouch Jr.  We all know JKR
> reworked the plot a great deal, so I contend the "one more death" is
> something she simply missed correcting the first time around, and
> that it would have been Moody.
> cheers
> dc

I'd also like to add to this that the "one more death" couldn't have been
Barty Crouch Sr., since it was stated in GoF (perhaps someone who can fine
their copy can look this up for me...) that the fake Moody killed Crouch Sr.
and transfigured him into a bone in order to cover up for Wormtail's goof of
letting him escape.  This is, IMHO, solid enough evidence that Crouch Sr.
was not supposed to be the added death.


(Oh, and odd little theory that's WAY out in left field here:  What if the
death wasn't intended to be in GoF, but in OotP?  That one could easily be
Bode... since, IIRC, he was an Unspeakable who worked in the Dept. of
Mysteries... the same department that was guarding the prophecy...  Like I
said... an oddball theory, but one I wanted to mention... *grin*)


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


I can see it now, the Healers examining Bode while his wife is there.

*points to Mr. Bode*  "This Bode's ill..."

*points to Mrs. Bode* "But this Bode's well..."

(I love a good pun... *grin*)

-- Iggy McSnurd