[HPforGrownups] Re: Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 189752

Lynda:
> My answer to this question is simple and rather blunt, and
> therefore may not be appreciated by some people. It's simply
> this. He joined Voldemort because he was an evil git. His
> father was distant and perfectionistic. So what. Yes, that
> can cause problems, but Harry himself was raised in similar,
> even worse, conditions by the Dursleys and didn't turn out
> the same way. <snip> Barty Jr. was just evil.


June:
I don't believe Barty Jr was evil. He didn't get recognition
from his father and really wanted it but his father was too
busy with his work to bother with Jr so Jr joinned the death
eaters to get attention. Bad attention is better than no
attention to some people.