Who else wants to see the return of.

[vjmerri]

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Date: 8/5/00 1:33 am  (ET)

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pt4ever listed a number of theories on why fake moody turned Draco into
a bouncing ferret.

I think it is a combination of several of them. At the "great ending
exposition" he did seem genuinely angry at any DE who was living among
other wizards. He seemed to greatly dislike their hyposcrisy and the fact
that they had abandoned Lord V, so he may have been punishing Draco for
Lucious' failings.

He also might simply have enjoyed the feeling of power that gave him
and Draco was one of the first excuses he had to use his magic in quite
a while.

But, IMO, he also did it because it was something that the real Mad-Eye
Moody would have done. It would seem to me that if you are impersonating
a person, eventually you become so enmeshed in the "character" that you
literally do things that he would do without thinking a great deal about
it. Now that wouldn't extend to Crouch leaving V.'s side, but still,
to a certain extent he "became" Moody, which does explain some of the
seemingly contradictory things he did, such as teach the kids how to
withstand the dark arts.

If Dumbledore had requested that the young wizards be taught the defenses
to the curses, that would explain "Moody" teaching them, but it does NOT
explain why "Moody" spent so much time drilling them into Harry's mind.

Maybe Barty Crouch, Jr. was somewhat schizo-phrenic in his mind, and
this came out by teaching the classes how to defend themselves well.

Vicki