[HPforGrownups] Barty Crouch Jr. the Loyal Supporter?

[Torsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 49455

durant:
>  I think it is fairly clear in GoF that Voldemort means his one loyal
>  DE at Hogwarts to be Barty Crouch Jr.  And Voldie makes of big deal
>  out of the fact that Crouch went to Azkaban, escaped and tried to
>  help him return to power.<snap>
>  However, when Harry sees Crouch Jr. in the Pensieve, he sees a man
>  who, at that point would clearly be willing to renounce Voldemort and
>  all the dark magic if it meant that he didn't have to go to Azkaban.
>  It was the other three who were with him who were the truly loyal
>  ones. Crouch was begging his father for forgiveness.

Me:
Had he been spared, Barty Jr. wouldn't have wasted any time and set out to find his master again. He swallowed his pride in his own  
faithfullness to be able to help LV.
Also, Barty Jr. knew his father very well and knew he most probably wouldn't show mercy. He knew he was going to Azkaban, he just put up this
show to cause some more damage, by casting a shadow on his father's reputation, subjecting him to people's doubts. A completely innocent son  
sent to the Dementors by a cold father was worse for people's opinion of their MoM-to-be than a son forced to do evil through the Imperius curse,  
for example.
If Jr. were to stay in Azkaban until he died, it wouldn't matter much, but maybe he was expecting his mother to help him escape - he's good  at
judging people and their likely behaviour - and therefore expected the outcome of people blaming things on his father in the end, like they  did
when he 'died'.

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