Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

[June Ewing]

Cat:
> <snip>
> Look at Stan Shunpike a weak one wanting protection and
> power by association... Now you might observe that he was
> under a spell when he attacked Harry in DH ... but think
> also of his boasts to the veela at the Quidditch Match.
> (You could compare him to Regulus in that he got in so far
> and got scared ... and as Sirius observed "No one stops
> being a Death Eater.")


June (doctorwhofan02):
You and I totally see eye to eye on the Barty Jr subject, but
as for Stan Shunpike, I do not agree that he was ever (on his
own) a Death Eater. He was under a spell when he was with them
in Deathly Hallows and when he first met Harry, he seemed too
scared to ever want to be involved with the Death Eaters. No,
Stanley is just one of those guys who likes to live vicariously
through others and as for the incident with the vela, he was
under their influence (if you remember Ron even was affected by
them) and Stan was just being a normal guy trying to pick up
women with tall tales.























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