Moody was really Crouch, Jr.

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 34087

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "meglet2" <mercia at i...> wrote:
> After all he tells Harry (more than once) that there is nothing he 
> hates more than a DE who got off. Moody might well be expected to 
> feel this but we know by the end these are Crouch's real feelings. 
> He asked Harry for details of how LV might have tortured the DEs 
> who didn't go to Azkaban and we know that Lucius Malfoy was one of 
> the first to go back to the MOM to save their own skins. 

This is also the source of the animosity between Crouch and Snape, 
who has the added baggage of being a known spy for Dumbledore near 
the end of Voldemort's reign of terror.  Snape, however, may be 
assuming that Moody's attitude toward him is because Moody (really 
Crouch) does not completely believe that Snape has left the Death 
Eaters.

> His pretence of concern for Neville at the end of the class may 
> have been in keeping with Moody (though he also had an alterior 
> motive for it) but it is clear from the text that seeing the 
> effects of the cruciatis even on a spider was a major trauma for 
> Neville. I believe that would be a bonus for Crouch who would 
> again see a little persecution of the son as an excellent way to 
> get some revenge for the Longbottoms' work against the Death 
> Eaters. 

I think Crouch was all ulterior motive and did not really consider 
whether this would make him appear more like Moody than if he hadn't 
done it.  Plus, he might have gotten a little extra thrill from 
using the son of the Aurors he helped torture.  This was, of course, 
revealed to be a plan of his which did not work (he tells when he's 
under the Veritaserum), but I'm glad for Neville that it didn't 
work.  Think how guilty he might have felt if he had been partially 
responsible for what happened to Harry.  As it was, I shudder to 
think of Neville having to go through the summer after fourth year 
knowing he was THIS CLOSE to the cruel DE who tortured his parents 
into insanity.

> The real Alastor Moody is Dumbledore's friend. He may be twitichy, 
> unpredictable, unconcerned with other's opinion's, suffering from 
> persecution mania etc but I do not believe that Dumbledore would 
> be friend's with someone who was cruel in nature. 

*cough!*Snape*cough!*

I was going to say "'Nuff said," after that, but I changed my mind. 
<g>  I do believe there is a backstory that JKR will give us 
eventually to explain why Snape is such an S.O.B. to Harry, Ron, 
Hermione, Neville, anyone who's not a Slytherin, etc.  Whether it's 
one of the many things I used in my fic (a combination of a 
relationship with Lily, a bad history with the Longbottoms and 
porphyria, which just makes people tetchy in general) or something 
entirely different (probably only the thing with the Longbottoms is 
a likely candidate to be used by JKR), I don't expect to find out 
about it soon.  This will probably wait for the latter half of book 
seven, as will many other revelations.  ::sigh::  Oh, the wait for 
book five....

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