[HPforGrownups] Re: Barty Jr's motivation

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 156064

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.

PJ:

My son had a thought about this.  He figures Crouch Jr wanted to see just 
how formidable Harry actually was since he knew he was sending him to LV and 
LV wasn't in top form yet.   Also, Crouch Jr. may have had plans to 
imperious Harry to go to LV on his own power at first and, finding out Harry 
could fight the curse, changed to plan B... the maze.

I think these are as good as any reason we've come up with here since it's 
never truly explained (at least not to my satisfaction) but I do agree with 
Carol that Crouch Jr. wanted to enjoy Neville's reaction to the crucio'd 
spider.  What a sicko he was!!

PJ