[the_old_crowd] So THAT'S why Dumbledore wanted Barty Crouch Sr to have a drink

ewe2 ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid
Sun Oct 21 23:38:13 UTC 2007


On 10/21/07, Judy <judy at ...> wrote:
> ....and spend the night at Hogwarts:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/10/20/harry.potter.ap/index.html
>
> Ok, I'm kidding about Crouch. (I think.)  But seriously, I didn't pick
> up on this at all. (Now, *Karkaroff*, on the other hand.) I just
> figured that by age 150, Dumbledore was focused on other things in his
> life.

This kind of afterthought throws me a bit; it's not as if JKR needs to
maintain interest by throwing out random backstory clues here and
there. Pinning the random gay tag on a character seems off-kilter; it
doesn't add to the narrative the way it might have to a student, for
instance. Next it'll be a secret gnome-fancying coven among the
Hufflepuffs which demonstrates the reality of inter-species fetishes.

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