Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

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 "katherinemaurer at ..." < wrote:
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> Hi, I'm new here and was hoping to ask some questions and speculate on Harry Potter.

Potioncat:
Welcome! My you've done some digging. There were some pretty amazing theories about the Crouches. I can't remember now if we only hear about him in one book or if he's mentioned earlier.
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> The most canon says about Barty's childhood was in Padfoot Returns, page 459 Sirius says, "Once the boy had died, people started feeling a bit more sympathetic towards him, and started asking how a nice young lad from a good family had gone so badly astray. The conclusion was that his father never much cared for him."

Potioncat:
If that's the section I'm thinking about nothing Sirius says is correct. I'm not sure what JKR intended in that conversation. We get a strong idea of things, but they don't pan out if you really think about it. (It's been a while since I've read it) It seems it's the same time that he doesn't think Snape was a DE, in part because DD wouldn't hire a former DE. So I'm not too convinced about his theory about what happened to Barty. I haven't read the theories in a long time, so I don't know what Elkins said either.

But if you want to be a Bary Crouch expert, I'd say you just need to know what was said about him, and who said it--and know what was said about that time. I'd suggest reading the section where Kreacher talks about Regulus. We get a good look at what Regulus was thinking and he's from Barty's generation.

Good luck, and keep posting.