Barty Crouch Jnr - More To It Then Meets The Eye

[evenflow200214]

No: HPFGUIDX 44661

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> 
> Saturday, September 28, 2002, 5:04:50 AM, evenflow200214 wrote:
> 
> e> Why did he put Harry through the Imperius Curse five times and 
didn't 
> e> tell Voldemort about it? Voldemort obviously didn't know or he 
> e> wouldn't of tried it at the cemetary. Its like he was teaching 
Harry 
> e> to beat Voldemort... and he renounced him in court. Screamed 
that he 
> e> wasn't involved yet is his most loyal servant.
> 
> e> Something does not add up...
> 
> I'm glad I'm not the only one... I've always wondered why he's about
> to kill Harry in Moody's office when he *knows* V wants to do it to
> prove his supremacy (or if you accept MAGIC DISHWASHER, at least 
send
> Harry back with false info for Dumbledore).  I think either that 
Crouch
> by that time was so ga-ga he was no use even as an effective DE, 
or...
> That he was playing a double-game all along, meaning to emerge as 
the
> *new* "biggest bully in the playground"...
> 
> -- 
> Dave

What is interesting about Crouch is that he had a strange sanity 
about him. He was a teenager when he was locked away for a crime on 
which it was debatable (I think) whether he committed it. 

He had no social contact for at least twelve years, what with being 
locked away in Azkaban and under his father's curse, no experience of 
a social surroundingm yet he has lands in the middle of Hogwarts, 
with all the students (some probably Fred & George like) the teachers 
with all their quirks. It would be so easy not to be on the same 
wavelength and not know how to react. But Crouch managed to pull the 
part of Moody perfectly. He is an unbelievable actor.

Also, he was a brilliant teacher. Harry compared him to Lupin. 
Whatever his intentions were, he made the students fill good about 
themselves, he taught everyone some valuable lessons and to be able 
to do that after twelve years without social context, is amazing. If 
he was a poor teacher, it could maybe understood but he wasn't. He 
was a fantastic teacher which is what is confusing about his character