Yes, Eliezer made a great deal of noise in that Moody scene about the preposterousness of the whole Goblet of Fire plot.
That’s, by the way, a rather obvious criticism for Goblet of Fire, which I think I’ve heard several times independently (before HPMoR was written) and I came up with it myself after I read the book.
There are ways it can be made to make sense, as you say, but it’s still highly criticisable that the readers need to invent justifications like “fake-Moody needed to hijack a preexisting Ministry-approved Portkey” when JKR herself could have done inserted such a sentence for explanation.
It’s still be a rather stupidly elaborate plot, mind you. Just not as preposterous as before.
That’s, by the way, a rather obvious criticism for Goblet of Fire, which I think I’ve heard several times independently (before HPMoR was written) and I came up with it myself after I read the book.
There are ways it can be made to make sense, as you say, but it’s still highly criticisable that the readers need to invent justifications like “fake-Moody needed to hijack a preexisting Ministry-approved Portkey” when JKR herself could have done inserted such a sentence for explanation.
It’s still be a rather stupidly elaborate plot, mind you. Just not as preposterous as before.