Frogs, Cats and Sadistic Teachers (was:Re: Teaching Styles)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 148105

Gerry wrote: 
> I'd say that is pragmatic. Yes, it is awful and evil, but says far
> more about how 'creative' fake!Moody is in manipulation people to get
> what he wants than about how he gets his kicks. As far as we know he
> could not care less in what way he got a one on one with Neville and
> to him this was just the easiest way to create an opportunity. I can
> very well imagine Barty being the kind of person who does not care one
> bit one way or the other about the pawns in his game, as long as they
> lead him to capture the king. 

Carol responds;
I don't think Crouch!Moody is indifferent to Neville's pain. I think
he enjoys Neville's suffering during the Cruciatus Curse
demonstration, and the spider's as well, which explains why it's
unnecessarily prolonged. This is the same man, after all, who at age
nineteen helped to Crucio the Longbottoms into insanity, and who later
kills his own father and Imperios Krum to make him Crucio Cedric. (I
think we can trust the Cruciatus expert, Bellatrix Lestrange, when she
says that you have to enjoy inflicting pain to cast a successful and
sustained Cruciatus Curse.) 

He also has the will to dominate, required for casting the Imperius
Curse, which IMO he casts as much for his own amusement as to see how
Harry reacts to it. (He can play with Harry, almost force him to
master fighting it off despite nearly breaking his knees, because
Harry, he believes, will be dead before the end of the year.) He may
very well enjoy his own cleverness, pulling the wool over everyone's
eyes for the sake of serving his master, but he also uses
Unforgiveable Curses at every opportunity. (If Dumbledore really gave
him permission to demonstrate the Curses, even use them one of them on
the students, he must have been very surprised by the request. I'm not
at all convinced that Crouch!Moody was telling the truth here.)

In any case, I'm wondering if he gave the same lesson in all his other
classes, none of which included either Harry Potter or Neville
Longbottom. How would he explain his belief that only the fourth-year
Gryffindors needed this lesson? Most likely he gave it to all his
students from the fourth year up. IOW, he Imperio'd some 160 students
(not to mention Imperioing, Crucioing, or AKing some 48 spiders, if my
math is correct). After some twelve years under the Imperius Curse,
this man is still able to dominate, torture, and kill effortlessly
and, IMO, take pleasure in doing so.

If he didn't sadistically enjoy bouncing the Transfigured Draco, I'm a
ferret. (Okay, that's a bit strong and just my opinion, but I feel it
strongly.)

Carol, whose least favorite character after Umbridge and Fenrir
Greyback is Barty Crouch Jr.