No mystery guest in OOP?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90511

> Cassie:  
> 
> Hmm...maybe.  However, unlike the other characters in the books who
revealed 
> themselves to be evil at the end, Umbridge was 'evil' throughout.
The others 
> tried to help Harry and really did fool him.  I can imagine Harry
being shocked 
> she did this, but not shocked that she was the one who did it
(especially 
> after the terrible things she's done and what a terrible woman she is) 
> 
> Maybe that's my criteria.  Good characters that WE would have never
expected 
> to be the villian.    


Carol:
Maybe JKR felt that's she'd used that plot device so often that we'd
solve the mystery halfway through the book if she used it again.
Possibly she wants to take the books in a new direction now, with new
kinds of surprises in each one. In this case, the big revelation--or
big shock if she hadn't prepared us for it--would have been the death
of Sirius, which would have made any revelation of a seemingly good
bad guy anticlimactic.

Carol