Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 189757



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> Pippin:
> It's Barty's own words that he felt unloved. "My mother saved me. She knew she was dying. She persuaded my father to rescue me as a last favor to her. He loved her as he had never loved me."
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> There's an echo here of the Snape, Lily, Harry dynamic. Snape had no sympathy for Harry, but saved him because of his feelings for Lily.
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> Pippin
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Nikkalmati

I believe this is a good observation.  Snape had a reason to hate Harry, not just because Harry's father had been cruel to him, but because Harry was the reason for his mother's death(not saying it was a good reason).  As I pointed out long ago, on occasion, fathers have been know to hate their own child, if the mother died in childbirth.  If Lily had not been determined to save Harry, she would not have died.  Of course, Snape loved Lily and not Harry, just as Crouch Sr loved his wife and (as his son thought) not his son.  The dynamic between fathers and sons and mothers and their children is a persistent theme in the novels.  It will even make someone a good thesis someday.

Nikkalmati