Crouch Summary

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6066

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:

> One thing struck me while I was reading the Crouch summary,

Yes, he is a tragic, unhappy man. He also has a weird name (there 
is a public intellectual named Stanley Crouch, and whenever anyone 
refers to Stanley Crouch in a magazine article or something, I say: 
"What *kind* of *name* is *Crouch*?") and JKR would not have chosen 
it without a reason.

I had been thinking that crouching down is a way of lowering oneself, 
so perhaps she was commenting that he had lowered himself below his 
ethical standards (presumably by that historically pivotal incident 
of rule-breaking -- but perhaps by having turned as cruel as the Dark 
Side in his war against it), but that would have been much more clear 
if she had named him Bartemius Stoop.

Because 'crouch' is so often heard in the phrase 'crouched to 
spring', referring to the way a feline or other predator gets lower 
by bending its legs so as to jump with more power when it pounces 
on its prey. Oh, that is Crouch the younger, preparing to pounce upon 
Harry! I get it now: she needed a name to fit both the stooped 
father and the predatory son.