Not So Faithful (was: Re: The Imperius Curse

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 2994

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> > [Barty Crouch, Jr] told his story, in great detail and under very 
> > strong Veritaserum, to Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, and Harry. 
> > He was indeed a very faithful servant.
> 
> For all that Moody/Crouch said "There's nothing I hate more than a 
> Death Eater who walked free" and mouthed off about disloyal 
followers 
> who denied their lord just to avoid Azkaban, he himself had
*loudly* 
> denied his lord ("Father! I'm innocent! I didn't do it!") in an 
> unsuccessful effort to avoid Azkaban. (Perhaps the given name
should 
> have been Peter rather than Bartemius, as Peter denied *his* lord 
> three times before cock crow -- does anyone have any ideas on the 
> meaning of the name Bartemius?) 
> 
> Two trains of thought that leave from this station have to do with 
> hypocrisy. One is the gutter-psychological theory of projection, 
> in which, whenever person X criticizes person Y for bad behaviour
A, 
> someones retorts to person X that he/she is only saying that
because 
> of 'denial' of his/her own A.
> 
> Another is whether the Lord of Lies really has any objection to his 
> followers lying.
> 
> A related thought is that, throughout the story, Crouch Sr. is 
> criticized for his hardness, such as ending his own son to Azkaban, 
> sending Sirius to Azkabab without trial, authorizing Aurors to kill 
> 'suspects' without the bother of planting a drop gun on them and 
> falsely testifying that the killing was in self-defense like Muggle 
> police officers do (apologies to any honest cop reading this post, 
> but I live in Los Angeles and cannot imagine why *anyone* was 
> surprised by the so-called Rampart scandal: talk about old news!).
> 
> But the harm that we actually *see* in this story was caused by 
> Crouch Sr's moment of *softness*. If he hadn't yielded to his 
> wife begging him to most illegally help a convicted felon escape 
from 
> prison, V couldn't have kidnapped Harry from Hogwarts, Cedric 
> wouldn't be dead, and for that matter, Crouch Sr wouldn't be dead.