MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

[Rach]

No: HPFGUIDX 68959

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> Rebecca Stephens wrote:
> > --- pickle_jimmy <kemp at a...> wrote:
> > 
> >>None of us are anti-MadEye!Crouch because he turned
> >>Malfoy into a 
> >>ferret. Because Malfoy is a Git.
> > 
> > Actually, I am.  Never liked him from the start. 
> > Didn't like him treating Hermione the way he did when
> > she called him on doing unforgiveables (really hated
> > him in fact) and despised what he did to Malfoy.  It
> > is wrong to do that to a student.
> 
> Right, he was far too lenient to Malfoy.  Malfoy should have been 
> expelled and sent to Azkaban for 10 years for attacking another 
> student from behind, a thoroughly despicable act.  Turning him 
> into a ferret for a few minutes was for all practicable purposes 
> letting him get away with attempted murder.

Lets remember that it wasn't Mad Eye who turned Malfoy into the 
incredible bouncing Ferret or who used the unforgivables in class - 
it was Crouch Jnr doing his best to impersonate Mad Eye. When Harry 
and Ron took polyjuice they didn't 'become' Crabbe and Goyle, they 
only took on their appearance. So all of Crouch Jnr's death eater 
like qualities would have still been present in his Moody persona. 

I have been mulling over this one for some time - Bellatrix told 
Harry that the secret of the unforgivables is that you have to enjoy 
it - which is why Harry's attempt at the Cruciatus Charm was 
relativley ineffective.  Dumbledore asked Moody to show the fourth 
years what they were up against - does that mean that Moody (the real 
one, who Dumbledore thought he was talking to) would have had to 
enjoy torturing and killing the spiders?  

Okay now I'm confusing myself!

rachel