[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 181877

Carol blessed us with this gem On 29/11/2007 10:18:

> The only alternative was to fly out, with
> as many decoys as feasible, 

Can anyone tell me why, instead polyjuicing six people to look like 
Harry, they didn't just polyjuice Harry to look like someone else (say, 
Duddykins and let him drive away with the Dursleys)? Or better yet, 
polyjuice seven people to look like Harry, *and* polyjuice Harry to look 
like someone else?

Or just keep him at Hogwarts and not send him back in the first place?

On page 47 Moody says, "We're choosing to break it [the protective 
charm] early...." Why does the spell need to be broken early? The 
breaking of the charm will presumably be detected by the MoM, so 
wouldn't it be better to leave it intact?

Moody explains they can't get Harry out via conventional methods because 
Thicknesse has made it illegal to connect Harry's house to the floo 
network or to Apparate out. No indication that the MoM is actually 
blocking Apparation, just that it's illegal. So hang the legalities and 
Apparate out anyway. If the MoM could trace Apparation, the Trio 
couldn't have stayed lost for so many months waiting for Harry to make 
up his mind.

Moody also describes the Trace to Harry as the charm that detects 
"magical activity" "around" under-seventeens. Huh??? The whole 
kit-n-kaboodle of 'em just just flew in under a basketful of 
Disillusionment spells. That's not magical activity? Hagrid riding a 
flying motorcycle. That's not magical activity? Moody's packing a six-er 
of polyjuice. That's not magical activity? They're about to break Lily's 
protective charm. That's not magical activity? Thestrals and flying 
broomsticks aren't magical activity? The Dursleys' house is ground zero 
in a hurricane of swirling "magical activity". If the MoM hasn't 
realized something's up at Privet Drive by now, they're not going to 
notice one Apparation more or less.

Or does Moody really just mean wand use? But that doesn't work either, 
because they detected Dobby's wandless magic.

CJ, whose given up counting holes in Moody's plan

P.S. I've recently had a complaint about the attribution line my e-mail 
reader inserts: "_____ blessed us with this gem On...." (see above); the 
impression was that it drips with sarcasm.

Does it strike anyone else that way? It's certainly not intended 
sarcastically, but if it strikes anyone else that way, I'll have to 
change it.