Page-filler Lupin RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: bugger and All things Snape

[Eileen Rebstock]

> Debbie:
>And what about Moody?  Despite JKR's assertion that he was "cooler"
than
> Crouch!Moody, what has he ever done?  Showed Harry a photograph.  Told
him
> to keep his buttocks on.  Showed up at the Shootout At The Ministry.
He
> was
> *much* more fun as a plot device.

Real!Moody was interesting when he was a flashback, talking about Evan
Rosier taking his nose off and leading the "Torture Karkaroff!" brigade.
He really should have quit while he was ahead. 

> And while we're at it, we might as well rename the Order of the
Phoenix
> the
> Order of the Plot-Device.  Face it, the Order is a dull place where
JKR
> stockpiles warm bodies whose plot value has been exhausted, along with
the
> other cardboard figures she needs to serve as guards, warriors,
> Voldemort's
> victims, etc.  

Not to mention, house cleaning staff! 

The only redeeming point of the set-up imho was that Snape's opinion of
the Order seemed about on par with mine. What he said to Sirius may have
been awful, but it was spot on. 

Eileen