At the begginning of Goblet of Fire, when Frank is listening in on Voldemort and Wormtail, Voldemort keeps saying things like "just one more death and the path to Harry Potter will be clear." Frank is obviously shocked to hear Voldemort plotting murder, but, as far as I can tell, we never find out who else Voldemort needs to kill to get to Harry. Bertha was already dead, so he didn't mean her, he couldn't kill Moody if he wanted Barty Jr. to keep drinking Polyjuice, Barty Sr. was originally supposssed to remain alive under the imperius curse to avoid suspicion and was only killed because he was starting to resist it, and Voldemort couldn't possible have known that Cedric was going to come with Harry. So, did I miss something, was this an oversight on Rowling's part, or was this a reference to a subplot that didn't make it to the final version of the book?Icecreamdif 20:40, February 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Wow. Very good question and not one I can recall ever being brought up before. And I certainly don't recall it ever being mentioned in association with any sort of ghost plot. I think it may very be an oversight. ProfessorTofty 05:34, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- It may very well be an oversight, but it just seems like a very weird thing for Voldemort to mention if it wasn't part of the larger plot. I guess Rowling might have put that dialogue in because it works well for that scene to establish to Frank that he's a murderer and then forgot to follow up on it later, but she's usually better about continuity than that.Icecreamdif 15:35, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- True, but there have been similar mistakes before. Even later in that same book, there was the infamous "wand order" error regarding which of Harry's parents came out during the Priori Incantatem first. Though, of course, that one was spotted and corrected in later editions. ProfessorTofty 17:38, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Did they finally correct that one. The difference is that that one was clearly just a continuity error (I think the story is that she got the order right originally, her editor thought that she was wrong, and she didn't feel like overthinking it and assumed her editor was right, or something like that), while this one is more of setting up a plot point that doesn't happen. Having Voldemort talking about a murder that never happens or is implied to have been planned to have happenned is a much bigger error than just getting confused about which ghost should come out of the wand first if everyone's coming out in reverse order.Icecreamdif 18:29, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- True, but there have been similar mistakes before. Even later in that same book, there was the infamous "wand order" error regarding which of Harry's parents came out during the Priori Incantatem first. Though, of course, that one was spotted and corrected in later editions. ProfessorTofty 17:38, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- It may very well be an oversight, but it just seems like a very weird thing for Voldemort to mention if it wasn't part of the larger plot. I guess Rowling might have put that dialogue in because it works well for that scene to establish to Frank that he's a murderer and then forgot to follow up on it later, but she's usually better about continuity than that.Icecreamdif 15:35, February 10, 2012 (UTC)