Crouch, Voldie and motivations

[ingachristsuperstar]

No: HPFGUIDX 45551

OK, I'll start with the usual apology for bringing this up if its
been 
discused before.  Now that that's overwith:

Does anyone have any thoughts on why Crouch!Moody was 
trying to help/force Harry to _win_ the Tri-Wizard Tournament as 
opposed to just entering him and assuring he finished the maze 
first?

The champion who came first in the 3rd Task wouldn't 
necessarily have won the Tournament would they?  If so, why 
bother with the first 2 tasks?  But then, if Fleur had no chance 
why was she still competing?  So, we must assume that after 
the winner of the 3rd task got the Cup (and arguably was 
transported via port-key to the front of the maze) they might have 
had to hand it over to the real winner of the tournament based on 
points.

Anyway, this is all preamble to the real question.  Why did 
Crouch!Moody care so much how Harry did on Tasks 1 and 2 if 
all he needed to do was get to the cup first?

Possible theories:
1. He wanted Harry to enter the maze first and so have a better 
chance of finishing first.  (possible, but he made it so easy for 
Harry in the maze -and finished off the competition - that it hardly 
mattered)
2. He wanted Harry to not die or be disqualified in the other tasks 
(this one seems likely, I guess, but there were precautions in 
place and no one was going to get hurt badly)
3. Voldemort wanted to show his followers that he could defeat 
Harry Potter and thought it would make a more effective 
demonstration if Harry had just won the tournament and thus 
proven himself as a powerful wizard
or going even deeper
4. Voldemort _really wanted_ Harry to be a powerful wizard when 
he faced him, either to prove to himself that he could beat a 
powerful!Harry when he couldn't beat a baby!Harry, or 
alternatively, to make the spell with Harry's blood even more 
powerful.

Crouch!Moody's help with the tasks (as well as his training in the 
Imperious Curse) no doubt made Harry a much more powerful 
and confident wizard.  Was this intentional?  They planned for 
Harry to be dead right after the 3rd task of course, so maybe they 
never planned for the consequences if he wasn't and weren't 
afraid that they were creating a possible enemy.  Voldemort was 
clearly putting on a show for the DE's lending evidence to theory 
# 3.  But we also know how arrogant Voldie is, and it would 
seem that theory # 4 might have some credibility.

So, was Crouch!Moody ordered to make it seem that Harry was 
a skillful wizard, or was he ordered to actually make Harry one?

Thoughts?

-Ing