[HPforGrownups] Brty Crouch Jr. (was More thoughts on the Cloak)

[Cassy Ferris]

No: HPFGUIDX 158858


--- abergoat <adescour at pirl.lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:


> The movie handled Barty very
> differently than JKR
> in the book. The movie had Barty a devoted DE
> gloating to the court,
> he took over Bellatrix's role since she was missing
> from the scene.
> JKR spent a lot of time in the book on Barty
> Junior's claims of
> innocence. I do believe he may have been innocent of
> the crime against
> the Longbottoms, but he had been a DE. Probably he
> as delibrately
> recruited because of his father's position.
> Dumbledore even says he
> doesn't know whether Barty was guilty or not when
> Harry asked him,
> because Harry found the pleas of the 19 year old
> Barty so disturbing.
> 

Cassy:

I think the movie handled this theme quite poorly. We
somehow lost an important statement about stooping to
the level of the enemy and sacrificing everything for 
power. Crouch Sr. is no longer an obsessed loathsome
politician, but a somewhat tragic figure. In the movie
Dumbledore even says that evidence against Barty Jr.
was overwhelming. So we also loose an example of act
of injustment comitted by the Ministery, which, in my
opinion, is quite important since we saw several of
them in different books (Sirius in book 3, Stan in
book 6).

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