AK/ Cruciatus on Spiders (was re:Digest Number 2109)

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 43753

In a message dated 07/09/2002 16:14:51 GMT Standard Time, midgiecat at aol.com 
writes:


> Readers keep forgetting that this isn't Moody teaching the class, but Barty 
> Crouch, Jr.  LV's most faithful servant.   He wants Harry to find out just 
> this way about the curse used to kill his parents.  I think he delighted in 
> 
> seeing Harry draw the conclusion - thrilled that he was able to watch as 
> that 
> hated Harry Potter imagined how his parents died.  Crouch, Jr. is posing as 
> 
> Moody but has feelings of Crouch and is probably sick of having to be 
> somewhat "nice" to all these students, especially Harry.  
> 

Yes. Crouch the DE had real motive for being cruel to Harry. He had to 
protect Harry and guide him through the tasks, although he was his master's 
enemy and agent of his downfall. He was preserving him for Voldemort to deal 
with and it must have been ever so tempting to have a go at him himself. This 
was a way he could do it without 'harming' him.

He had an even more personal motive for being cruel to Neville as it was for 
Crucio'ing Neville's parents that he was sent to Azkaban.

He knew *exactly* what he was doing, showing those curses to those two boys. 
And then he demonstrates his 'concern' for them.
The sadist! 

Yes. I'm sure he loved that lesson every bit as much as the students who 
weren't unfortunate enough to have had personal experience of the 
Unforgivables.

Eloise
Greatly disturbed by the thrill of admiration which she can't help feeling 
for this character, who must surely be one of JKR's very best creations. 
Shame the Dementors got him!



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