The GoF Train Scene (was:Re: Humanity, Kant, Caricatures, and Draco)

[Peg DiGrazia]

No: HPFGUIDX 146662

Magpie:
> Your suggestion that he doesn't know all this makes sense to me, but I think 
> there's a conversation between Umbridge and Dean where she refers to their 
> Death Eater teacher and Dean confirms their being taught by a DE but says 
> they learned loads.  At least that's how I remember it--I don't have the 
> book to look it up.  I have no idea how the kids would have found out, but 
> that scene seemed to suggest it was known by some people, including Dean the 
> Muggleborn.

Peg:
  I think they all knew, or thought they knew, what happened by the end of the year simply because word gets around.  No one has to make an official statement about something like Crouch!Moody for a group of hundreds of teenagers who spend all their time together to work it out for themselves, or at least to come up with rumors that turn out to be pretty close to the truth.  I mean, Harry appears with Cedric's body, both Karkaroff and "Moody" disappear that same night, and a few days later DD tells you that LV killed Cedric...  Even if you didn't know about Crouch, wouldn't you assume Moody had turned out to be a maniac?  And if one student got an owl from a parent who works at St. Mungo's saying that Moody had been brought in for an examination (as I assume he would have been,) and didn't he look awful, all skin and bones and with a bald patch on the side of his head, that information would have travelled across the student body in a day.  There's not much you can do to squelch the
 rumor mill.
   
  Peg