[HPforGrownups] Re: They have some detail terribly wrong...

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 103459

Bren now:

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


Sherry

I guessed both outcomes.  But here's why, I think.  First of all, from the
beginning of POA, we are supposed to believe that Sirius Black was an evil
wizard out to kill Harry.  I didn't buy it.  It seemed too obvious.  too
many mystery novels perhaps?  I truly don't know.  It just didn't seem
right.  There had to be a twist, so I just kept thinking it couldn't be
true.

In GOF, the clue that got me was all the talk about Voldemort's faithful
servant being at Hogwarts.  I kept trying to remain in denial, because I
liked Moody and didn't want it to be him.  Also, we'd already had an evil
DADA teacher in the first book.  But more and more, I started to believe it
had to be Moody.  karkaroff was too cowardly, Crouch too stuffy, and Bagman,
well, hard to describe him, just too self concerned to be anyone's most
faithful servant.  By the time Moody leads Harry off to the castle after he
returns with Cedric's body, I was convinced.  Dumbledore had told Harry to
stay, and that was the last piece falling into place for me, though I was
convinced before.  What I didn't guess in advance was the identity of fake
Moody.  I never guessed he was Barty Crouch Jr.!  I was glad to be
surprised.  I was especially glad he wasn't really Moody!

Sherry G