Crouch as Moody (was: Crouch teaching Unforgivables)

[mtwelovett]

No: HPFGUIDX 56821

> María Helga wrote:
 
> As far as the Unforgivables teaching is concerned, I've always been
of the opinion that Moody!Crouch Jr. was simply giving the most
accurate "Mad-Eye" performance he could.  Dumbledore knows Moody
incredibly well, and therefore Crouch had to teach this specific
subject (and all others, of course) in a Moody enough manner so as not
to arouse suspicion.  Dumbledore picked up on Moody!Crouch Jr.'s
secret identity right away when  he (Crouch) didn't bring Harry to him
(Dumbledore) immediately after the Tournament.  Why wouldn't DD have
picked up on it if M!C Jr. had balked at teaching them how to resist
Imperius?  For M!C Jr, seeing Harry and Neville in pain was probably
just an added benefit to playing his role extra well...twisted, sick
creep that he is...


This Moody/Crouch thing is something that has bothered me for a while.
Harry and Ron seem to keep their own thoughts and actions when they
drink the polyjuice potion in CoS and have to "act" as Crabbe and
Goyle while they look like them. How much Moody are we actually seeing
in GoF? and why does it take a whole school year for DD to catch on?
(althougth Moody is pretty eccentric) It seems to me that Crouch would
have slipped up more before then. But is any of what we see "real"
Moody or just an interpretation of him by Crouch? (I know we are
seeing Crouch as Moody, but how good of a performer is he?), and if
Crouch is keeping him alive to learn his mannerisms and to continue
with the potion, why doesn't Moody "fight" it more? Why didn't he
"teach" Crouch false mannerisms to give himself away? (or was he
acting under the imperious curse and was just to weak to be fighting
it?--is this actually stated somewhere? Don't have the books with me
to look it up) Do you take on more and more qualities of the person
the longer you use polyjuice potion to become them? I know we are
supposed to be seeing "the real Moody" in book 5, but that is still
several weeks away...I'm really curious if we'll see any major
differences. 

Any thoughts? 

mtwelovett