More Moody Madness

[tanie_05]

No: HPFGUIDX 36268

Leon 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? I can (barely) understand 
his 
> helping Harry to get to the end of the TriWizard tournament so that 
> he could touch the portkey and get to Voldemort (which is a huge 
> stretch when there were so many other ways to do this - just take 
> Harry out for icecream in Hogsmead and then portkey him there. Or 
> forget the portkey. Knock him cold and carry him. Whatever.)

That has always confused me too..until I read this essay on the 
Lexicon. Then I got it. Here's the link; you should read it, it may 
help: http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/why_cup.html. (BTW, thanks 
Steve!!)
 
> And why did he give Neville those books, inspiring the kid to work 
> harder to excel. Why not laugh at the feeble spawn of the parents 
he 
> had killed, and leave Neville to wallow another year?

He never killed Neville's parents. He just drove them insane with the 
Crucius Curse.

-Kyrstyne