Barty Crouch, Jr and Mystery Death Eaters

[Jamie Lipton]

No: HPFGUIDX 36317

I've just been rereading GoF - the bit where Harry's in Dumbledore's
Pensieve and witnesses the trial of Barty Crouch, Jr. and friends for using
the Cruciatus curse on the Longbottoms.

Upon his conviction, Crouch Jr. cries out to his parents that he didn't do
it, and we assume that he is lying.  At the end of GoF, we find out for
certain (unless the Veritaserum is faulty, but let's not go there) that
Crouch Jr. was and is still a Death Eater, but he is not asked about whether
or not he really tortured the Longbottoms.

Does anyone else think that, while Crouch Jr. was certainly guilty of being
a Death Eater, he may not have been guilty of using an Unforgiveable Curse?
It's come up before that maybe he was under the Imperious Curse.  How else
could a man who spent most of his adult life in Azkaban perform such
difficult magic unassisted?  It is emphasized that he is a very young man at
this trial - probably just out of Hogwarts.  It seems unlikely to me that
such a young man with no family background in the Dark Arts should be able
to perform the Cruciatus curse to the degree required to drive the
Longbottoms to insanity.

Who are the other Death Eaters involved in that trial?  There are two men
and a woman - one of those men and the women might be the Lestranges?  Who
is the last man?  Anyone we know?  Whoever he is, we can presume he is still
in Azkaban.  When Voldemort is resurrected, he only accounts for the
Lestranges being in Azkaban.  There are the three that died in his service,
but I imagine they were killed before Voldemort's fall.  The one who was too
afraid to return was Karkaroff, and the one who has left forever is Snape -
is that correct?  So that's one mystery Death Eater, which begs the
question, how many Death Eaters are there?  Are there more than just the
ones Voldemort named, in the same way that there must be more Gryffindor
girls in Hermione's dorm that don't get mentioned?

- Jamie