Crouch!Moody and the Unforgivables

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 98989

Meri:
> I am currently rereading my copy of GoF, and have just finnished the 
> chapter (chapter 15, Beaxbatons and Durmstrang) where Crouch!Moody 
> teaches Harry and his DADA class about the Imperius curse, and had 
> put each of them under it in turn. This is also where Harry learns 
> to resist the curse, which will come in handy later when he finally 
> duels LV in the graveyard. After Harry throws off the curse for the 
> first time, Crouch!Moody makes an interesting comment, and I 
> quote: "Very good, Potter, very good indeed! "They'll have trouble 
> controlling you!" (page 232, American hardcover).  But 
> something hit me tonight. What if, in the vein of many classic right-
> hand men, Crouch!Moody had his own designs on LV's power? I know 
> that he will state while under the veritaserum that he will be 
> closer than a son to LV, but that doesn't mean that he didn't have 
> ambitions of his own, and he allready showed that he was capable of 
> killing a (admittedly despised) father. Perhaps, if DD and the 
> others hadn't busted in on him and Harry in the Veritaserum chapter 
> (after LV's rebirth and Cedric's death) he would, like LV in SS, 
> have asked Harry to join him? Asked Harry to be his right hand man? 
> I know, I know it's crazy, but could the "them" refer not to DE's, 
> but DD? And Crouch wanted to prevent Harry from being manipulated by 
> the side of good as much as the dark side? We know that he was 
> kissed by a dementor (dementorized?) but where has his body gone? Is 
> recovery possible? Will Crouch be back to challenge LV? Or am I 
> completely cracked? Feel free to crush my rantings to bits. 


Becki says:

Meri, you  raise some interesting questions.  I have never quite 
understood the moody/crouch's behavior.  During the veritumserium 
scene, he has fessed up to "if's there's one think I hate more than 
any other, it's a death eater that walked free", and continues to 
say that he alone remained faithful, GoF 675 Am HB.  My question is 
if he was so devoted, why did he do the very same thing as the other 
DE, deny LV at his hearing to his father and the rest of the court 
that we witnessed in DD pensive?  And also, with his protecting 
Harry to get him through to the end, he 'armed' with many weapons to 
help him fight.  One would almost think that he went too far, taught 
him too much, and that he could have achieved his goal and not given 
Harry so many weapons to fight LV in the end.

What do you think?

Becki