[HPforGrownups] Re: Suggestions please: Mysteries

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 121661



> Jim Flanagan wrote:

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How did Crouch Jr. learn all the advanced magic that
he displayed while at Hogwarts pretending to be Moody?
 
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> Carol responds:
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> And for all we know, Winky in her mistaken kindness
to poor young Master let Barty Jr. practice magic
under the cover of his invisibility cloak. We know
that he had periods when the Imperius Curse was weak,
and the Imperius Curse didn't prevent him from
maturing physically, so probably it didn't prevent the
natural maturation of his magical powers, either. 

Juli:

But I don't think Barty Jr did any magic while under
the Imperius curse, here's the quote from GoF, Ch 35

"But Winky didn't know that I was growing stronger. I
was starting to fight my father's Imperius Curse.
There were times when I was almost myself again. There
were brief periods when I seemed outside his control.
It happened, there, in the Top Box. It was like waking
from a deep sleep. I found myself out in public, in
the
middle of the match, and I saw, in front of me, a wand
sticking out of a boys pocket. I had not been allowed
a wand since before Azkaban. I stole it. Winky
didn't know.

This means he didn't do any magic, at least any
wand-magic, he could have done some wandless, but I
doubt it. Barty must have learned the Dark Arts when
he joined the DEs, afterwards he was sent to jail,
then imperio'd by his father, then he went to Hogwarts
as Moody so this doesn't leave much time to learn much
magic.

Juli


		
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