Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

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> Nikkalmati
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> 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.
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Alla:

I definitely agree that this is not a good reason to hate a child for, but what I want to ask is how do we know that this is a reason at all?

Lily was not going to die because Voldemort said so? The liar of all liars in the books was going to keep his word? I am just really not sure about that. Voldemort said a lot of things in the novels and we know that some of them were not true, and JKR herself said he was a liar. Why should we believe Voldemort? For all I know he wanted Lily to stand back simply because it would have been easier to kill Harry first and then to kill her. Moreover, we ALREADY know that he did not keep his word to Snape. He did not tell him, oh Severus I will ONLY keep her alive if she would not try to keep me from killing her son, he agreed to keep her alive period as far as we know, right? He did not. And for some reason we think that her standing aside would have been enough?

I am not really buying it.

JMO,

Alla.