Barty Jr's motivation..../ uglybaby!LV

[zanooda2]

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> Sugaranddixie:

> <EDITED> << What is Barty Jr's motivation>>  in teaching Harry's class 
> about the unforgivable curses? The only conclusion I can come to is 
> that he thought that was what the "real" Moody would do & so did it
to > make his masquerade more convincing. 
> Maybe he never heard the saying , "Forewarned is forearmed". Did 
> Voldmort order Barty Jr. to show Harry the curses so he (Barty Jr.) 
> could report back to LV with Harry's reactions? Did he think Harry's 
> advance knowledge would somehow cause him to freeze up with fear when 
> the showdown took place? Any thoughts?
>
> 
zanooda:
This is one of the many, many questions that I had concerning GoF.
Fake Moody had to act convincingly, of course, but he definitely
overdoes it in certain respects. One thing is to teach  kids about UCs
in general, but to teach Harry, of all people, how to resist the
Imperius curse? 

The only conclusion I was able to come to was this: Barty Jr.'s main
goal is to help Harry to get to the Cup before the other champions, so
he arms Harry against the UCs in case someone tries to use them to
eliminate him from the competition. For example, Karkaroff  could
Imperius Harry to make him fail at one of the tasks, or something like
that.

In this case the Fake Moody's reason to teach Harry to resist the
Imperius curse was not to arm him against LV, but to guide him through
the tasks safely. 


> Catlady wrote:

> Voldemort's speech certainly doesn't say that Bertha Jorkins  
> provided him with more than information, but I believe her poor 
> moribund body was a necessary ingredient for making his uglybaby 
> body. Either by using pieces of it to make like a Frankenbaby, or by
> using her womb to grow one.


zanooda:

I was thinking about this and here is what I cannot understand: if, as
you say, LV's babybody was created only after Bertha Jorkins was dead,
then it was not him who interrogated her and tortured her and killed
her, but Wormtail on his orders.

However, from LV's graveyard speech I have an impression that he did
it all himself. He says things like "the means I used to break the
Memory Charm upon her...", "when I had extracted all useful
information from her...", "I disposed of her" etc. This is one of the
many things that I don't understand about this particular book.