GoF - Chapter Nine

[justcarol67]

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Kethryn wrote:
> 
> 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?  <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm guessing that you have the American edition, as I do. But I'm
pretty sure that the Bloomsbury edition says "one more Curse" to
perform rather than "one more murder." There was a discussion of this
discrepancy some time ago, but rather than resurrect old posts, I'll
just ask Geoff or someone else with the Bloomsbury edition to confirm
the point.

I'm pretty sure that no other murder was planned and that the curse
referred to Barty Sr., who was to be put under the Imperius Curse. I'm
not sure what curse they performed on Moody to subdue him, but I don't
think it was one of the Unforgiveables. A "stupefy" would have been
enough to lock him in the trunk and obtain a lock of his hair for the
Polyjuice potion.

Carol