Crouch!Moody's teaching WAS Quirrel's teaching...Dumbledore's aging process

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., candlewick <candlewick4 at y...> wrote:
> 
>..why did Fake!Moody teach Harry (and
> all his other students, presumably) how to resist the
> Imperious Curse?  Voldemort tried to use it on Harry
> in the graveyard and Harry was able to fight it
> because he'd been given so much practice from
> Crouch!Moody.  Was Crouch!Moody just trying to be a
> good teacher in order not to blow his cover?

IMO Crouch!Moody was accomplishing a few things with his 
performance.  He WAS acting the good teacher to preserve his cover 
but he was also setting up the next generation of Voldemort victims 
AND finding out a lot about Harry and Neville.

Fear of the unknown is terrible but fear of the known can be worse.  
What does Crouch!Moody do?  He shows children exactly what they are 
facing if they defy Voldemort.  I know that if I had to face 
Voldemort after having seen what happened to those spiders I would be 
a quivering wreck.  

As to teaching them to resist the Imperious Curse, it appears to me 
that it takes a natural talent to be very successful at resisting 
it.  Harry is the only one who seems to have the innate ability to 
resist.  I don't have the books with me right now but do any of the 
other students improve?  Even if they do, is Crouch!Moody hitting 
them with the curse as hard as he can or is he giving them a false 
sense of accomplishment?

Harry and Neville have to be particularly interesting to Crouch!
Moody.  Harry, after all, is the one who defeated Voldemort.  When I 
re-read that chapter after knowing about Barty Jr. I could almost 
hear the gears turning in Crouch!Moody's brain.  "What does this boy 
have that makes him special?  Exactly how talented/able is he?  How 
did he defeat the Dark Lord and does he know how he did it? Let me 
find out exactly how much he knows and how good he is."  

The purpose is more personal with Neville IMO.  I am a firm believer 
in the theory that Neville was a witness to his parents torture.  
Since that was the crime that Barty Jr. was convicted of I can see 
him having special interest in Neville and what Neville may or may 
not remember. 

A thought just occurred to me that is a little off the track I 
started from but seems interesting to me also.  Is there ANY 
possibility that Barty Jr. may not have actually been involved with 
the torture of the Longbottoms?  I'm not saying he is/was an innocent 
saint but what if he was just on the fringe of the Voldemort crowd 
and was charged just to discredit his father?  What if Neville was 
the only witness and was memory charmed not for his own protection 
but to keep him from ever being able to say that Barty Jr. was 
innocent?      

Audrey (who believes that Crouch!Moody is second only to Snape in 
intrigue and personality facets and hopes that Real!Moody can/will be 
half as interesting)