[HPforGrownups] Oh, just loads of Snape stuff, from the many threads

[Scott Northrup]

No: HPFGUIDX 51218

Amandageist;
> Okay. Moody. To quote you from above because I digressed on Snape (how
> unusual, that): "Crouch!Moody is cruel to Draco because he was in
violation
> of school rules, in a very serious manner."
>
> Again, you discount the man's personal agenda. This is a Death Eater who
> lives and breathes to bring his master back so that master can seriously
> kick the asses of all the other Death Eaters who have *not* spent years
> being controlled by their own fathers and imprisoned in their own houses.
> Revenge. All things are for that goal. And here's Draco, son of Lucius,
who
> has spent every night since Voldemort fell, free in his manor house eating
> gourmet food prepared by house-elves and sleeping between gently warmed
> sheets and NOT SEARCHING FOR HIS MASTER.
>
> I may be wrong, but I believe that this incident was one of the first, if
> not the first, times Crouch!Moody speaks to or sees Draco. Crouch!Moody
must
> have been *delighted* that Draco gave him the opportunity to do this to
him.
> He may even (I postulate without a shred of evidence) have Imperiused
Draco
> to cast the curse in the first place--perhaps there was a very good reason
> Draco missed at that range, he was being directed to--giving himself a
> chance to inflict pain on the son of Lucius. This would serve a purpose,
> too, as well as being fun--his master does not, after all, need Draco, and
> Draco is a possible danger to Harry and should be controlled or subdued
from
> the outset. Moody's skill leans to Imperius. But I digress again.
>
> My point is, that Moody may be better at playing the scenario logically,
but
> I think he also had loads of motive behind what he did, that had
absolutely
> nothing to do with what actually happened.


Hmm... that is an excellent point.  I do agree that Crouch probably has his
own agenda outside of punishing Draco.  I'm hoping we do get to see a good
deal more of Real!Moody in the next book.

See, to me- aside from the couple of clues JKR throws at us in GoF (none of
which make any sense unless you're rereading the book), I truly think she
just wrote Crouch!Moody as if she were writing Moody.  There's not really
anything to back me up on this, aside from the fact that the man managed to
fool Dumbledore for 9 months or so.  So, whenever I read that scene, I still
think of it as being Moody who turns Draco into 'the amazing bouncing
ferret.'

-Scott

(who still thinks Draco deserved it.  I mean, honestly, how bad could being
transfigured into a ferret and bounced around be?  Have you ever been
transfigured?  How do you know that it's the most terrible punishment
possible.  I sort of laugh and shake my head whenever people on the list say
that its 'unacceptable.'  We know it's not allowed at Hogwarts, but then,
paddling isn't allowed in public schools today; but I hardly think that
paddling a child is a form of torture.  It's not like Crouch!Moody used the
Cruciatus curse on Draco or anything.  Also, I still hold that the mental
image of someone being turned into a ferret and bounced around is hilarious.
And I /don't/ torture small animals or children, and never did.)