[HPforGrownups] Re: Crouch as Moody... tangent from the Snape DAD line

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32403

At 12:36 AM +0000 12/30/01, arvokitty wrote:
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>why *was* C-as-M so insistent on teaching this to the class, and
>especially to Harry, and seemingly so pleased that Harry was able to
>fight it off---"they'll have trouble controlling *you*!"

I think he was teaching Defense against the Unforgiveable Curses 
because Dumbledore honestly thought it should happen - that that's 
what RealMoody would have been teaching about if he was there.

Moreover, Crouch Jr. has been under the Imperius Curse for a 
_decade_.  He's been struggling against it for most of his adult 
life.  IMHO, he hates the Imperius Curse itself, and blames it for 
his current condition (except when he has Crouch Sr. under it, in 
which case it's mere justice).  It's a true thrill for him to see 
someone, _anyone_, successfully fighting it.  I don't think he's even 
thinking of it as a potential weapon for Voldemort against Harry; I 
suspect he thinks the confrontation between V. and Harry will be a 
simple Avada Kedavra, possibly with a Cruciatus Curse for good 
measure.  (He may also think that V. is so much more powerful than he 
himself is that Harry's being able to shake his Imperius is no 
measure of whether he'd be able to shake V.'s.)

>Also---why did C-as-M suggest that Harry and Hermione should think
>about careers as Aurors?

This, I think, was merely good roleplaying on his part - it's the 
sort of compliment that one might expect from Moody.  (And, after 
all, Crouch Jr. would know, wouldn't he?)

>Does Barty Crouch *still*, in spite of everything, have a shred of
>fairness and human decency in himself?

Not fairness or decency, exactly, but I do see his glee at seeing 
someone else "beat" the Imperius Curse as a humanizing element in his 
character.

>And of course there is the wonderful scene with Draco Malfoy the
>amazing bouncing ferret (LOL)---but that could have been a way for
>Crouch to express his annoyance with Lucius Malfoy (thru Draco) for
>not being as faithful a DE as Crouch himself was.

I don't think Crouch Jr. likes Lucius at all - since Voldemort knows 
that Malfoy was one of the DEs at the Quiddich Cup, that suggests 
that either Crouch Jr. or Wormtail (or both) knew, too.  Crouch Jr. 
probably knows that Malfoy fled when he sent up the Dark Mark.  I 
think his annoyance with Draco is entirely traceable to that.

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