Mad-Eye's Unforgivable Class

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 18109

jenny from ravenclaw wrote, " If Mad-Eye is not really Mad-Eye, but 
Death 
> Eater Barty Crouch, Jr, then why would he want anyone from 
Gryffindor 
> to be able to throw off the [imperious] curse?" 

This is my favorite puzzlement from GoF, and the answer I have always 
seen is, he did it to appear to be like Crouch. But unless Dumbledore 
was specifically saying "teach this on this day," that just doesn't 
hold water. Imperious would be the No. 1 thing you would *avoid* 
teaching if you were truly Voldemort's servant. 

The other theory is Crouch was testing Harry's strength to report 
back to Voldemort; if so, as we see later, the memo never got there, 
because V is both surprised and humiliated in the moments Harry is 
able to resist him. 

My own personal belief is that JKR wrote Mad-Eye as a likable, good-
guy character, hit her much-publicized plot difficulties, and re-
wrote him to be evil Crouch. People have disputed this theory for 
many reasons (the much-rumoured Icicle character that was supposedly 
written out of the book) but to me the whole Mad-Eye/Crouch 
revelation is so much less well set up than anything else she has 
written....in my mind, it just sticks out like a sore thumb as a plot 
fix. 

~Rosmerta