Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch. 13: Mad-Eye Moody

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No: HPFGUIDX 192190




> Questions:
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> 1. Do you think JKR was poking fun through Hermione at people who rush to the
> defense of those they consider victims without considering the feelings of the
> so-called victims or was she trying to make a point about treating everyone
> fairly?

Never thought about JKR's motivation here before! I always just considered it from Hermione's point of view - she was being a "do-gooder", and (as we see later) trying to force the elves to act in a manner that she considered appropriate rather than seeing things from their point of view. Now that you've asked - I think she's rather poking fun at Hermione-type people in the world. After all, JKR did her time as a welfare mom and I'm sure she ran into a few do-gooders in her time. But that's JMO.

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> 2. Crouch, Jr. was behaving in a way that would convince the faculty and DD
> that he was Mad-Eye., so did he attack Draco because it was something Mad-Eye
> would do or was he angry at the Malfoys in general?

Now this one I've thought about before! My assumption has always been that Mad-Eye was serious when he said that he really couldn't stand any Death Eater that went free, and Lucius was definitely in that category. So he took out his frustrations with the father on the son. 

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> 3. Why did Draco become a ferret? Would that be his Animagus form or did
> Mad-Eye make that choice?

Again, just my opinion here, but since it was a white ferret, and Malfoy's hair was white, I always felt that this was probably his animagus form (or his Patronus, take your pick.)

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> 4. What do you think really happened at Mad-Eye's house with the Muggle
> policemen that required modification of their memories? Is Arthur authorized to
> do that?

My take on this is that LV, Crouch Jr., and Wormtail went to Mad-Eye's house and caused the disturbance to purposely get Mad-Eye to react in the way that he did. Before the Muggle police arrived, they subdued him and Crouch Jr. drank the Polyjuice Potion and started on his nearly year-long adventure of playing Mad-Eye Moody. Or conversely, they subdued Moody first and then Crouch Jr./Moody caused the disturbance.

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> 5. Did you have any ideas about what Hermione was doing in the library?

Being Hermione? ;o)

Thanks for the questions! Going back to lurking -
Pat


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