They have some detail terribly wrong...

[Brenda M.]

No: HPFGUIDX 103455

>>> Peter Jacobi wrote:
> 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!" <<<


Bren now:

Hmm. That's too bad that you read the German edition only. Your 
English seems really good, why don't you try the British edition?

As for Crouch!Moody -- after reading PoA I was so upset (for being 
too surprised at the end) that I made numerous notes along the way 
reading GoF. But needless to say I failed, again. I recently re-read 
GoF hoping to catch the missed hints yet no sucess. But I think most 
of the "clues" happened during the whole World Cup fiasco.

Shortly after Dark Mark's appearance after Quidditch game, when 
everyone was running away, we see Winky running "as though something 
invisible was holding her back" (paraphrasing). I think this is the 
biggest clue given in the whole book. And also the strange male 
voice conjuring the Dark Mark. The rest wasn't strong enough hints, 
I don't think.

Remember how much "new" information we find out from Verisaterium-ed 
Crouch? We get LOADS of intel, almost half of them about post-QWC. 
We read through GoF while all those things were happening yet we 
barely knew what was really happening. Compare that to the Shrieking 
Shack in PoA, where most of info we find out had to do with past. 
This could explain why JKR said PoA was the easiet to write, and GoF 
the hardest (well besides OoP)

Bren