Abusive Crouch!Moody (was: In Defense of Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 123242


>>Betsy:
>Alla, are you seriously condoning Crouch!Moody publically 
humiliating and physically assaulting Draco?  Does it matter if he 
did it out of anger or not?< 
 
>>Alla:
>Nope, I don't condone what he did to Draco at all, even though I WAS 
amused by the incident, but I most certainly don't condone it.
>No matter how much I dislike Draco, he did not deserve it.
>But you misunderstood me completely. My comment had nothing to do 
with Draco. Carol COMPARED Snape's ability to control his anger to 
crouch!Moody and I responded that IMO Crouch!Moody controlled his 
anger MUCH better than Snape does.<

Betsy:
Whew! I should have known better, Alla, but I was worried for a 
moment! :) But I do wonder about Crouch!Moody being under control.  I 
always read him (once I knew who he was of course!) as a big seething 
ball of barely suppressed rage.  Much more rage that my beloved Snape 
(hee!) is caring around.  I got the impression that he was *dying* to 
do some damage to an escaped Death Eater.  That's why he picked on 
Snape as much as he did, and that's why when he saw the chance to 
give Lucius a little pay back through his son - he took it.

Snape, though he has similar anger issues with the Marauders, behaved 
*so* much better than Crouch!Moody.  Snape never treated Harry like 
Crouch!Moody treated Draco - physical assult combined with public 
humiliation. (I shudder to imagine the Slytherin DADA class on the 
three Unforgivables - what did Crouch!Moody make Draco do, I 
wonder?)  Cold words in the classroom and a close watch for illegal 
activity do not compare in my book.

Also, I think Snape behaved a bit better with Lupin.  He didn't trust 
Lupin, was quite sure Lupin was helping Black, but I don't recall 
Snape verbally toying with Lupin like what Crouch!Moody does with 
Snape IIRC.

Michele mentioned Sirius in her post (message #123213) - and yes 
Snape does loose it with him.  I'm not trying to argue that Snape is 
a master of control or that he doesn't have anger issues.  I *do* 
think however, that Crouch!Moody's issues are bigger, uglier, and 
more violently displayed.

>>Nicky Joe:
<snip>   
>I think the reason no one is crying "child abuse" in this scene is 
because we all know Crouch!Moody is as evil as Voldemort and Draco 
probably got off easy. And because Draco is a nasty little sucker and 
most of us would like to see him snapped in half as much as Harry 
would.<

Betsy:
Oh, I don't think getting dropped from 10 feet in the air is 
really "getting off easy."  I felt a lot of sympathy towards Draco in 
this instance, especially after realizing that he was targeted with 
such violent anger because of something his father did.

Betsy