Was Crouch Junior a DE?

[mrs_sonofgib]

No: HPFGUIDX 114129

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> Carol: 
> First, Barty in the Pensieve scene is a nineteen-year-old boy 
being 
> guarded by Dementors, fiends that he knows can suck his soul away 
(a 
> premonition?). He's terrified and hysterical. Second, like most 
DEs, 
> he's probably a former Slytherin, and Slytherins, we're told, will 
> use any means to achieve their ends. Barty's "end," or objective, 
in 
> this instance is to be free, to avoid Azkaban and the Dementors at 
> any cost. So he combines his very real terror with a lie, a 
> desperate attempt to get his father to believe him. 
> 
> Bookworm:
> This is exactly what makes me question him being the "most 
> faithful".  Lying to save his own skin (soul?) is understandable 
but 
> doesn't show much fidelity to his master.  IMO, Bella is the one 
who 
> should get that description.  
> 
> Ravenclaw Bookworm

Tina's two cents:
I've always read it as:
Barty Crouch Jr had an *advantage* that his mother (especially) and 
father were present and that his father had the power to free him.  
As the faithful death eater, he used *whatever means* he had to be 
freed so that he might *continue LV's work*. In this case,  I think 
it was all a show.  AND it worked!  His mother convinced his father 
to let him out!  His true character is revealed during the veritas 
serum episode.  He is cold and fanatically committed to LV (some 
psychological implications, there...).