Mad-Eye's Unforgivable Class

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No: HPFGUIDX 18127

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... 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 curse?  Why did he teach it to them?
> 
> That scene has been bothering me since I finished reading GoF for 
the 
> first time.  Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw****************************************

I think that BCJ taught the counter-curse:

1) To help ensure that Harry makes it thru the Triwizard Tournament 
to the Cup.
2) To make sure that it appeared that he was the real Moody, to throw 
off any suspicions of Dumbledore's.
3) He probably didn't think it would lessen any chances of 
Voldemort's in killing Harry right off ... he probably assumed that 
Voldemort would not waste time playing around with Harry. He probably 
assumed that Voldemort would go right for the Avada Kedavra and be 
done with him.
 
It just goes to show you how over-confidence breeds carelessness. 
Stupid villains!

Doreen, who thinks the same can be said of teenagers :)