[HPforGrownups] Crouch/Moody motivation

[Christina]

No: HPFGUIDX 32963

Elizabeth Dalton wrote:

> > ** snip** I guess I think Crouch played a "good teacher" very well. 
> > We'll have to see what Moody is like (if he sticks around as a 
> > teacher).

Katze wrote:
> **snip** Wasn't crouch originally one of the few who tortured Neville's 
> parents? Why then, would he want to go and try to make Neville feel 
> better, and give him a book on herbology (a subject that Neville is good 
> with)? If Moody were actually Moody, this seems pretty honest, but it's
> a stretch for me to believe that Crouch/Moody was trying to 
> actually help Neville. 

Crouch/Moody wasn't trying to help Neville.  He was trying to help Harry. At the end of book 4, Crouch/Moody confesses to Harry that he gave the book to Neville to help him figure out what to use for the second task.  (Then when Harry didn't figure out what to use, he staged a conversation for Dobby to over hear, knowing Dobby would want to help Harry.)  Crouch/Moody needed Harry to be successful in obtaining the goblet of fire so Harry would be taken to Tom Riddle's grave  for Voldemort's rebirthing ceremony.

~Christina


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