[HPforGrownups] GoF - Chapter Nine

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 122145

Charme said -
> I have been focusing on Chapter Nine of GoF as in JKR's interviews and
chats
> she says that it was so difficult to write, she thought about skipping the
> chapter completely. We pick up the action as Harry, Hermoine, and Ron have
> fled to the woods after the supposed "DE's" began having some Muggle
sport.
> Please note that up to this point, the trio had been hearing bangs and
> shouts from the campsite, then Draco Malfoy appears:
>
<snip>
>
> A blast like a bomb? A flash of green light? Does this in any way sound
like
> something we've possibly read about before?  What other than the Muggle
> sport, Winky, and the Dark Mark happened that night?
>
> charme

Kethryn now -

And your question blends in nicely with one of my own...in the beginning of
GoF, Voldemort and the Rat are talking about murdering someone...someone
other than Harry from the way that the sentances are phrased.  Now, my
question is, who did Voldemort/Rat murder?  Bertha was already dead at this
point and the other murders (because they came out of the only wand
Voldemort/Rat had available to them) were Cedric and Frank.  I rather doubt
that Voldemort/Rat were planning on killing Cedric - how could they know he
would tie with Harry for the Cup - and I seriously doubt they knew Frank was
listening until Nagini told them.  So that leaves Barty Couch but I couldn't
swear to it that Voldemort/Rat knew they would have to kill him at this
point...not when he could be controlled with magic.

So, my question is, who else could it have been?  Or was it really Harry the
entire time and I am just reading it wrong?  Of course, (to tie it back into
the original email), was the flash of green light (which, by the way, has
only ever been associated directly with the AK...or I am skimming once too
often) the death of some as yet undiscovered body?  Or even the attempted
death?

Don't you just love it when your email gets questions back?

Kethryn