Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 118337


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

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> Pippin:
> I know two Wormtails sounds unlikely, but just imagine that GoF 
> had come out as a serial. Would you have been prepared to 
> believe after The Egg and The Eye chapter  that 'Bartemius 
> Crouch'  wasn't the Ministry official we had met, but another 
> character we hadn't even heard of so far? And yet, if someone 
> had asked, "Was it really Barty Crouch that Harry saw burgling 
> Snape's office?" what would JKR have answered except, 
> "Correct." 

Correct me if I'm wrong, Pippin, because I'm away from my books--but 
doesn't Sirius mention that Barty Crouch Sr. sent his own son to 
jail, in the conversation in the cave?  And talk about how he didn't 
last long, but died?  So, in a sense, we've been set up--what is the 
sneaky revelation is that Barty Jr. is still alive, and has been 
smuggled out.  This comes after The Egg and the Eye, so in a sense, 
there we've been GIVEN the information we need--we just don't know 
what we have.

It's sneaky, yes, but it's also been *explicitly* prepared, so that 
when the true answer comes to light, we have something to flash back 
to, something very very definite which has become fully 
comprehensible, and go "Oh..."

Now, if you'd like to cite me where, textually, this is explicitly 
and clearly done for Wormtail!Lupin, I would love to see it so that 
I can be prepared for the ultimate revelation. :)

-Nora goes back on vacation, which means reading less...fun things