Fake!Moody and the Unforgiveable Curses

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw
<meboriqua at a...>" <meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> Hey everyone -
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> For a long time I wondered why Crouch-as-Moody would teach the 
> Unforgiveables to the students of Hogwarts.  
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> ...edited...
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> --jenny from ravenclaw *************************

bboy_mn:

Or maybe, he was just doing his job. In order to keep up his front as
Moody, Crouch is have to act like Moody and do Moody's job. He said
Dumbledore thought the students were strong enough to handle seeing
these curses. When he used the Imperious curse on the students, he
said that Dumbledore wanted the students to become familiar with the
effect. That would imply that the real Moody and Dumbledore had a plan
for why Moody was there and what he was suppose to teach. Now, you
could say that Moody made it all up, but it's unlikely that something
like that could be kept a secret, students talk, teachers and other
students overhear. Other students might wonder why they aren't getting
the same leasons. To many potential risks to try to bluff his way
through that right under Dumbledore's nose. 

So, I suspect it was just Crouch!Moody doing his job as a teacher, and
I do get some sense that he was enjoying being a teacher. Besdies,
Crouch had been under the Imperious curse for years, probably a fate
he would not wish on anyone. So as his own personal agenda, he made an
extra effort to teach the students how to resist it.

I really don't think teaching the curses was some big conspiracy
between Crouch and Voldemort. It was just Fake!Moody doing Moody's job.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

bboy_mn