Weatherby

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No: HPFGUIDX 37867

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "gwendolyngrace" <lee_hillman at u...> wrote:
> 
> We learn later that Crouch has been fighting the Imperius Curse at
> 
> I believe that "Weatherby" is actually the name of a *former*
> assistant of Crouch's, perhaps one who was a lot like Percy. I think
> it's this similarity that reminds Crouch of Weatherby when he thinks
> of Percy--and that lends to his confusion after the Curse is placed 
on
> him.
> 
> At first, I thought Crouch may have already had Imperius cast before
> the Quidditch World Cup. The timeline is ambiguous, although it
> strongly suggests that Voldemort did not make contact until after 
the
> event. However, it may be possible that he *did* arrange to Imperius
> Barty Sr. before the cup, or else decided he needed to enlist Barty
> Jr. prior to the cup, and perhaps at that time, Crouch is suffering
> from the combinative effects of Imperius and a memory charm.
> 
> If that is so, then at no point in GoF do we see Crouch when he has
> not been the victim of dark spellwork. The confusion over
> Weasley/Weatherby, whether initially magically induced or not,
> however, I think clearly derives from a previous employee's name, 
and
> the blurring of past and present Crouch suffers under the curse.
> 
> Gwen

This sounds interesting... But if Crouch calling Percy "Weatherby" 
during the cup indeed was an honest mistake, caused by magically 
induced blurring of past and present, shouldn't somebody of his old 
colleagues, say, Arthur Weasley, have noticed that Crouch was behaving 
out of character?  Surely some remark like "That's not like old Barty, 
confusing his current and former assistants" was in order.

Ana, *amazed how at this stage of not having new canon material there 
always is something new to discuss on this list.  Eagle owls, 
wizarding names... Great!*