More Moody Madness

[sarah28962000]

No: HPFGUIDX 36200

adatole wrote:

> Something I have never been able to work out about the whole 
> GoF "Crouch is Mad Eye Moody" thing:
> 
> Why did he help any of the kids at all? 


   This always bothered me, too.  I think, aside from being a plot 
device, Moody/Crouch:

1.  Needed to make sure Harry could protect himself from anyone else 
who might be going to hurt him before V. could get to him (like who? 
I don't know, Karkaroff? Malfoy?)

2.  Crouch is a real ham, and after 12 years of being under house 
arrest is having a ball playing Moody to the hilt.  Every day, he 
looks down at his little WWMD keychain (What would Moody do) and 
really does it up right.

3.  I believe he is really enjoying bouncing Malfoy, tortureing 
Snape, etc., and not just pretending.  After all, he is loyal to V. 
but has some real mixed emotions toward the other DE's.

4. Perhaps if you Polyjuice into someone for too long their original 
personality starts to rub off on you??  After so many months Crouch 
was at least in some ways really turing into Moody.

5. Don't forget, Crouch is really, really insane.

6."Oft evil will evil mar" or something like that.


Also, JKR seems to enjoy setting up father figures for poor Harry and 
then snatching them away, if they're not werewolves or wanted 
murderers then they're servents of Voldemort & so on ...


Sarah