Scabber's Attack on Goyle

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 113456

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...>
wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> <snip>
>  To me that attack and the attack by the fake Moody on Drago in
book 
> 4 have 
> > similarities.
> > 
> Angie replies:
> 
> Hmmm  . . . interesting.  I never thought about why Moody attacked 
> Draco; I thought he was trying to get on Harry's good side.  But 
> wasn't it FakeMoody who said if there was one thing he couldn't
stand 
> it was a Death Eater who got away?  Thus, his attack on Draco could 
> have been intended as signal to Lucius because Lucius pretended to
go 
> back to the "good side."  But then again, Lucius didn't know that 
> Barty Jr. was masquerading as FakeMoody, so any message to Lucius 
> would have appeared to have come from Moody???

Yes. He was trying to get on Harry's good side.
Yes, Saying: "I can't stand a DE that walks free" was in character for
both Couch and Moody. His attack on Draco came from of all of them.

It could be that JKR is just using the common device of having the
bad guys fight among  themselves, or possibly she intends this pattern
 as a form of foreshadowing.  I really don't know which. 

Tim
- Trying to think of other instances where Harry received violent
support from an unexpected quarter.   Hagrid's attack on Dudley?