Barty Crouch Jnr

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 38092

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ben Leigh" <ben.leigh at c...> wrote:
> In answer to Melanie's question,
> 
>   Do we know whether or not Barty Crouch, Jr was a slytherin?  I 
can't remember.
> 
> 
> If we refer towards the end of GoF, Dumbledore says "Its not what 
makes a wizard, but what  one chooses to become, your dementor has 
destroyed a pure-blood as old as any, and look what he  chose to make 
of his life."
> 
> My idea of the sorting hat, though highly magical, I don't think can 
predict the future. From the little we know about Barty Crouch Jnr, he 
was talented, ambitious and hard working so a possible house may have 
been Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff.
> 
> If anyone has any other ideas please let me know.
> 
> Ben 

Oh, Crouch Jr. was definitely a Ravenclaw, imho. Well, he should have 
been. I actually think he was a Slytherin. He had to have been in 
quite close contact with the usual Slytherin suspects to have become a 
Death Eater by the age of 17/18. His father is Slytherin from head to 
toe (as opposed to Draco - that unSlytherinish kid who somehow 
blundered his way into that house.) Crouch Jr. had Slytherin 
attributes, though I expect he would have been a better Ravenclaw, and 
the family thing, combined with Crouch Jr.'s inherited belief in 
Slytherin as the best house, might have tipped him into Slytherin over 
Ravenclaw.

But look at his academic performance and the way he takes to teaching 
after more than a decade under Imperius in his bedroom. Definite 
Ravenclaw material there. Totally wasted.

Eileen