They have some detail terribly wrong...

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 103452

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "peter_jacobi.rm" 
<peter_jacobi at g...> wrote:
> > In GoF, no one suspected that Moody was really Crouch and 
> > was planning to deliver Harry to Voldemort.
> 
> I'd like to concentrate on these two books, as I've found
> me most disturbed by these turns of events. 
> 
> Perhaps I'm just not a carefull enough reader (and reading the
> german translation doesn't help either), but what about any
> clues to the reader of these outcomes? In PoA, there is some
> clue, as the intruder in the sleeping room doesn't kill Ron, 
> right?
> 
> But what about Mad Eye? Was there a hint I missed? I feel the 
> reader has the "right" to get some hint, however subtle it is.
> After the great revelation the reader should be able to say:
> "I should have known!"
> 
The only clue I can think of is the flask.  Crouch/Moody was always 
drinking out of his own silver flask that he carried around.  
Afterwards, we discover that this was because he needed to take the 
Polyjuice Potion every hour to keep from changing back into his own 
form.  At the time, it was passed off as one of Moody's 
eccentricities, because he was so paranoid of being attacked and 
poisoned that he wouldn't drink anything prepared for him by someone 
else.  It would be pretty near impossible for a reader to figure 
this out on his own, I think, but it's the sort of tell-tale clue 
that allows us to look back and say, "Ahhhh, yes, NOW I see!"

Wanda