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[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 2924

<I see that I am to also discuss Barty Crouch.  Am I to assume this 
is Crouch Sr.?  After all, I saw a discussion later slotted for Mad-
Eye-Moody and it's going to be hard to discuss the *real* Moody - so 
I guess that will become a discussion of Barty Jr., right?  Or do I 
discuss them both (Jr. and Sr.)?
Bonnie>

I think we know enough about all three characters (Mad Eye Moody, and 
both Barty Crouches) to discusss each of them.  The main problem is 
to separate the things that Moody/Crouch did into actions based on 
Crouch's personality and actions that Croush based on his portrayal 
of Moody's personality.  To complicate things, though, some of 
Moody/Crouch's actions incorporate aspects of both Moody's and 
Crouch's personalities.  For instance, the "bouncing ferret incident" 
(lol) probably is a good indication of the real Moody's style of 
doing things, but Moody/Crouch's motive for doing it is perhaps 
partly based on Crouch using Draco to vent his annoyance at Lucius's 
unfaithfulness to Voldemort.
Nevertheless, Crouch must have been doing an almost perfect 
impression of Moody all along to fool people like Dumbledore who knew 
the real Moody (at least until the very end), so although there are 
almost certainly some subtle (and confusing, if we were to meet the 
real Moody) differences, Crouch's version of Moody is no doubt an 
extremely close approximation to the real thing.