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

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 158875

Cassy wrote:
> 
> 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).

Abergoat writes:

Very well said, Cassy. JKR's interviews have given us every reason to
believe that she feels evil is created, not born. Barty seems very
likely to have been someone similar to Regulus, caught up in something
he regretted. But unlike Regulus, Barty got arrested for a crime he
probably didn't commit, and if so the injustice of it turned him from
morally weak into something more evil.

Abergoat