Thoughts about Barty Jr (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 23973

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
> WARNING: The motto of this whole post is IMO, so I didn't 
bother to 
> write it every time I make some conjecture of my own
> 
> 
> Finally it has come to my mind who Barty Jr. reminds me of: It's 
> Count Dracula's faithful servant Renfield!! The coin fell at the 
> moment I reread what he tells Dumbledore under the influence 
of 
> Veritaserum, the key phrase being: „And then- my Master came 
to me!", 
.................................
> He spent one year in Azkaban and left the prison dying (GoF: 
„They 
> sensed one healthy and one dying person enter and one 
healthy and one 
> dying person leave"). What exactly were his symptoms? Was 
he dying 
> because he had stopped eating? Had his Dementor- induced 
state of 
> depression become so bad that he had simply abandoned 
himself? 


Susanna - love the comparison to Dracula; how could I have 
forgotten one of my earliest, most-favourite stories?

The 'one healthy, one dying' who entered Azkaban were Barty's 
father and mother - SHE was dying at the time. After she and 
Barty took their respective Polyjuice Potions, he 'became' her and 
that's why the Dementors then sensed 'one healthy, one dying' 
person also leaving Azkaban.