Crouch as Moody - the best DADA teacher?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 170422

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jo (Joanna)" 
<twirliewirlie85 at ...> wrote:

> I am interested to know what the general opinion is as to why Crouch
> as Moody taught the students the unforgiveable curses.
 
> At first I thought it was because he enjoyed torturing the children
> whose parents had gone through similar suffering as that of the
> spider.
 
> However, why did he tutor Harry until he was able to fight the
> curse?  (UK paperback GOF p. 204).
> 
> The reasons I can think of are:
 
> 1. He wanted to see just how strong Harry was.
> 2. He enjoyed putting Harry through it with the trade off that Harry
> would learn at the same time.
> 3. He was doing something else to Harry when they all thought he was
> using the imperius curse.
 
> Or something else maybe?


zanooda:

We discussed this before AFAIR, but I couldn't find that thread. 
Basically, I remember that the most probable reasons for Fake!Moody 
to teach Harry how to resist the Imperius Curse were:

1. Fake!Moody needed Harry to win the tournament, that's why he 
wanted him to be able to throw off the Imperius Curse in case 
Karkaroff uses it against Harry in order to give Krum an advantage.

2. Fake!Moody enjoyed using UCs and was eager to do it after his long 
imprisonment. The lessons on UCs gave him the opportunity to curse 
students (and spiders) in class "legally".

3. Fake!Moody was watching the students' reactions to the UCs with 
the purpose of looking for the possible future "DE material".


I even think there were more reasons offered, but I can't remember 
right now. Maybe someone else will :-).