Eh, she has to set up a few things for later books, and then just put enough red herrings to keep the resolution from being obvious... so it didn't bother me. But I see what you mean.

Yeah. At this point I think we really have enough information to figure it out - okay, after Sirius' infodump two chapters further, anyway. Hercule Poirot would easily solve the whole thing from the information up to here.

It is odd... I think he just doesn't want any more attention from Moody than necessary, what with his Dark Mark and all. And with Karkarov's habit of popping in to whine.

True, that. Nicely weaseled out, but it's one of the very few actual errors he makes anywhere in the book...

Yeah, there's really a ton of those when you start listing them all.

Pretty much. And is it just me, or is that scene rather chilling? Suppose Harry had glimpsed part of the truth here, and not managed to keep that hidden from Moody... the very least we're looking at then is a memory modification spell, worst case scenario he tries to kill or abduct Harry on the spot. It says that Moody looks at Harry for a good while and Harry thinks he's hesitating about how much to tell him. Nonsense. He's hesitating about whether Harry knows, and whether he has to go for the radical measures right then and there. That's arguably one of the most dangerous positions Harry has ever been in since he was one year old, and he doesn't even realize it, nor does Rowling make it explicit.

It's a moot point, isn't it? Harry will be killed by Voldemort and not live to become anything whatsoever, if the plan works. But yeah, it might be intended as a subtle mockery of Aurors - if you're genuinely that blind, why don't you join that lot, you'd fit right in.

Boomslang in English too, is it? How interesting, Rowling speaking Dutch. And indeed.

It's misleading of course, because Sirius says he "saw them bury him". We don't know how much he saw, or whether he saw his face while they were burying him - we assume he does, but evidently he didn't.

Yep. Sometimes quite dangerously so, as above.

Not really, they only break out in early OotP... the Lestranges, at least, I don't know about Avery. Unless you mean that Voldemort talks about them, yeah.