Crouch!Moody and the Goblet of Fire -- why so complicated?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157299

Aida wrote:
>
> I've always wondered - why did Fake!Moody *insist* Harry learn how to
> fight off Imperio?  At first I thought, 'well maybe he wanted to see
> how powerful Harry was'.  That's fine, but why ensure Harry gets
> *stronger*?    Doesn't that make Voldy's job harder?
> 
> Just another inconsistency that JKR will never answer.

Carol responds:
Just speculation, but I think that Barty Jr. enjoys casting
Unforgiveable Curses and Harry's apparently innate ability to resist
the Imperius Curse gives him the opportunity to Imperio Harry about
five times until he masters the skill. (He also Imperios everyone in
the class to show them what it feels like, even though not one of them
can resist the curse, and uses all three curses on the spiders,
prolonging the Crucio to torture poor Neville, in part for sadistic
pleasure and in part so he can pretend to feel sorry for Neville and
give him the water plants book.)

Granted, satisfying his sadistic impulses would not justify (in his
mind or LV's) teaching Harry to resist the Imperius Curse if he
expected Harry to live, but he's trying to get Harry to win the
tournament so that he'll grab the Triwizard Cup and be portkeyed right
to Voldemort and Wormtail, who will make sure (so Barty thinks) that
Harry contributes his blood to the potion and is then killed. Being
able to resist the Imperius Curse won't give him any advantage against
Crucio or Avada Kedavra. It might, however, give him an advantage in
the tournament if, say, Igor Karkaroff tries to Imperio him to give
his own champion, Viktor Krum, a better chance. Crouch!Moody wants
Harry to win and is giving him every possible advantage over the other
champions, who are older and more experienced, but not an advantage
over Voldemort, the most powerful Dark Wizard since Salazar Slytherin.
(That Harry might survive the encounter with Voldemort probably
doesn't enter Crouch!Moody's mind.)

On a side note, I'm not at all sure that Crouch!Moody really received
Dumbledore's permission to illustrate the Unforgiveable Curses on
spiders in front of the students, much less to Imperio them. I doubt
very much that the real Moody would have done so. So whether he
requested and received permission (DD does seem to give his teachers
an unusual amount of free rein) or demonstrated the curses without
permission and DD found out about it, DD's suspicions would have been
aroused, at least subconsciously. One more piece of the puzzle, which
flies into place, along with the memories DD has placed in the
Pensieve and the stolen Polyjuice ingredients, when Crouch!Moody
disobeys DD's order to leave Harry where he is when he returns with
Cedric's body.

Carol, who loves GoF and was much more disturbed by Cedric's death
than by Sirius Black's