Barty Jr's motivation

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 156062

Sugaranddixie wrote:
> 
> > <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. 
<snip>
> >
zanooda replied:
> 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. 

Carol responds:
Essentially I agree with zanooda, but I think Crouch!Moody had
additional motivations. First, I doubt that the real Moody would have
demonstrated Unforgiveable Curses in front of the students, much less
*on* them. IMO, Crouch!Moody enjoyed the opportunity to use the
Imperius Curse to control the students, to use Avada Kedavra in front
of Harry, and especially to use a prolonged Cruciatus Curse in front
of the boy whose parents he had helped to Crucio into insanity--with,
of course, the added motive of "comforting" Neville by giving the book
he hoped Neville would use to help Harry. I don't think he anticipated
Harry's ability to resist the Imperius Curse, but no doubt he enjoyed
making Harry bump into furniture and bruise himself while he practiced
resisting it. Another part of Barty Jr. probably admired Harry's
ability and enjoyed teaching him to resist the curse, all the while
"knowing" that Harry was going to die. But also he would have
realized, as Zanooda pointed out, that Karkaroff badly wanted Krum to
win and would have no scruples against using the Imperius Curse on
Harry, any more than barty scrupled to use it on Krum, so why not
teach Harry to resist it? The better to win the tournament and take
the portkey to the graveyard.

One thing Barty wasn't doing, and that's helping the kids to fight
against Voldemort. He didn't teach anyone to resist the Imperius
Curse; he just allowed Harry to teach himself and the others to get a
taste of what it felt like without giving them any idea how to resist
any of the Unforgiveables. The only practical DADA lessons those kids
ever got from a teacher (aside from escaping from minor Dark
creatures) were from Snape in HBP.

Carol, who thinks that Crouch!Moody took advantage of every
opportunity for sadism and revenge, whether it was punishing the son
of a Death Eater who walked free or murdering his own father