Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

[doctorwhofan02]

No: HPFGUIDX 189742

Katherine wrote:
> <snip>
> Barty Crouch Jr is my favourite character and as so, I have
read a lot of ssk7882's fantastic posts. They did enlighten me
on some things, but one main question seemed to be unanswered.
>
> Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort? Further to that, what
was Barty Jr's childhood like, to lead him to that decision?
>
> 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."
> <snip>


doctorwhofan02:
This is how I understood it. It is pointed out that Winky, the
house elf was set to look after him when he was found to be alive
in The Goblet of Fire. I would presume that, that is probably
how he was raised (being looked after by someone other than his
father). And it does seem that any way his father rather ignored
him as a child. My way of thinking is that he could not please his
father or get attention from his father no matter what he did and
concluded that if he could not get his father's attention by being
good, he would be bad and join Voldemort (oh I'm sorry He who must
not be named). It is common with children and teens. Bad attention
is better than no attention, so that is what I read into it. Very
good subject, I wonder if anyone else has an opinion on it.