Loyal Servant?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 31652

Is there anyone besides me who's wondering if Crouch really *was*
V's loyal servant?  Two things get me: One, in the Pensieve he's
desperatly screaming his innocence, unlike his three companions.
Second and more crucially, in the final scene between him and
Harry, Crouch says that Voldemort "so wanted" to kill Harry...
We know this to be true, because V is desparate to demonstrate
to the DE's that he's stronger than Harry.  Yet, Crouch is on the
verge of killing Harry *himself*!  This seems to me like Barty is
playing a double-game here -- If V fails to kill Harry (by virtue
partially by Harry's training and advice from pseudo-Moody) but then
Crouch kills him, this would show that Crouch is stronger than
Harry who's stronger than a restored V!  The DE's would see this, see
where the real supreme power is, and suddenly it's *Crouch* who's
"the biggest bully in the playground!"  Does this make sense?
*Could* Crouch have worked so hard to bring V back, really in order
to embarass him and prove himself the stronger?  Is *this* why he
meticulously taught Harry about the three unforgivable curses, and
told him to "play to his strengths" (his Quidditch reflexes) so that
Harry could escape and get killed by Barty later?  Is *this* why V
(perhaps) ordered the Dementor to finish Crouch off -- to remove a
potential rival?

-- 
Dave