GoF - Chapter Nine

[witchypooh67]

No: HPFGUIDX 122167


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <wulfkub at w...> wrote:
> 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

Kelly:

I just reread the passage you mention at the beginning of GoF (US, 
PB, Pg. 10) and I think they must be speaking of Crouch Sr., which 
will allow Voldemorts "*faithful* servant" to return to him.  

As for the green flash, I had not noticed the similarity to the 
description of GH until Charme pointed it out.  I wonder if someone 
wasn't AKed that night.  But who?  I'm not sure I understand the 
time turner explanation, however.  That might be interesting, too.

Kelly