Who is crouch in harry potter

What's not revealed, however, is who else took part in that horrific crime. The book sheds light on this and it's revealed that Crouch acted with help from Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange. The Lestranges were also carted off to Azkaban as punishment for their horrible actions. All three would later break out during the events of the Order of the Phoenix, however, and rejoined the Dark Lord once again. The fourth movie doesn't paint Crouch Jr as an innocent man.

As soon as he's accused of torturing the Longbottoms by Karkaroff he tries to sprint away and, when his father Barty Crouch Sr disowns him, he lets out a villainous snarl. But this is something that's again different in the source material. Crouch Jr proclaims his innocence, shaking like a leaf as he's sentenced.

He cries out for his parents, asking them to come to his rescue, but this doesn't happen. His father, under pressure from the wizarding community to clamp down on Voldemort's followers, shouts his guilty verdict with vigor while his wife sobs silently next to him. There, they talk about the arrest of Barty Crouch Jr and the consequences it had in the aftermath. And it's there that Sirius suggests everybody thought Crouch Sr had failed his son, not spending enough time with him growing up due to a determination to rise up the ranks and take on the ultimate role of Minister of Magic.

Crouch Jr's escape from Azkaban is never explained in the movies. One moment he's sent away, the next he's back at Lord Voldemort's side ready to do whatever his master demands. But the fourth book sheds light on how he was able to get away from the prison - and it involves his mother.

Under the influence of Veritaserum, Tennant's character reveals how she, upon finding out she was dying, took Polyjuice Potion in order to change places with her beloved child. She wants nothing more but to save her son from a life sentence and, knowing her own time in the world is limited, she takes his cell in Azkaban while he goes free.

The Death Eater's mother dies there, alone and without her family present. With Harry's own pride and independent streak standing in the way of the plan, Barty had to improvise.

Remembering that Harry mentioned having an elf friend named Dobby who gave him socks for Christmas, Barty called Dobby into the staffroom and staged a loud discussion with Professor McGonagall about gillyweed, right in front of Dobby. The house-elf responded by stealing the plant from Severus Snape 's personal stores and giving it to Harry on the day of the task.

During the events surrounding the Tournament, Bartemius Snr escaped from his home and travelled to Hogwarts, where he wandered in his confusion in search of Dumbledore, planning on confessing about how he smuggled his son from Azkaban. Voldemort immediately sent an owl to Hogwarts warning Barty Jnr that his father would likely show up at Hogwarts.

Bartemius Snr came upon Harry and Viktor Krum , but by then, he was so delusional and insane that he was unable to clearly convey anything beyond what appeared to be ramblings about his son and Bertha. The former went to the castle to fetch Albus. Barty Jnr, having kept an eye on the Marauder's Map he borrowed from Potter, arrived at the scene before anyone else, and waited for Harry to leave before he stunned Viktor , and killed his father.

He transfigured his father's body into a bone and buried it in front of Rubeus' cabin. Before the third and final task of the Tournament, Barty volunteered to place the Triwizard Cup in a maze through which the contestants were to navigate.

He took advantage of this opportunity to turn the Triwizard Cup into a Portkey. As he patrolled around the labyrinth hedge, he stunned Fleur Delacour and used the Imperius Curse on Viktor to get rid of Cedric, but Viktor was stunned by Harry.

Nonetheless, Harry got to the Cup, along with Cedric, transporting them to the Little Hangleton graveyard when they grasped it together. It was at this time that Peter performed the ritual to restore Lord Voldemort's physical body , using Harry's blood, Peter's own hand, and Tom Riddle Snr 's bone from the grave. When Harry escaped the graveyard and returned to Hogwarts, Barty ushered him away from the panicking crowd to interrogate him about Voldemort's return.

He revealed to Harry that it was he all along who guided him through the Tournament; he put his name in the Goblet of Fire , got Hagrid to show the dragons, explained the Golden egg to Cedric knowing he would tell Harry, bewitched Viktor Krum and stunned Fleur Delacour.

Barty then planned on killing Harry and being honoured above the rest of Voldemort's followers. But before he could, Albus, accompanied by Minerva and Severus, fired a Stunning Spell at him, having realised that he was not Alastor when he removed Harry from his sight — his one slip-up. After the Polyjuice Potion wore off, Barty confessed everything to Albus under the influence of Veritaserum , a strong truth potion.

However, before he could testify before the Wizengamot, Barty suffered a fate worse than death, receiving the Dementor's Kiss by a Dementor that Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge brought with him. Cornelius regarded Barty as a raving lunatic, believing that he merely thought that he was acting for Voldemort and thus was not convinced that the Dark Lord was back.

Barty Jnr's soul removal marked the end of the Crouch family bloodline, [18] and what happened to Crouch's empty body following this, is unknown, although it is possible that Crouch died sometime in the mid- s.

The younger Barty's death influenced his family's former house-elf Winky's depression, the motherly creature already mourning the latter's father and shocked further that his son was the responsible, and her alcoholism with butterbeer continuing for years and never getting over her respective master's deaths. Decades after his death, in the s , Barty Jnr's wand manifested during the Calamity as a Foundable and had to be returned to Azkaban.

In his youth, Barty was described as being a pale young man with straw-coloured hair and freckles. Prior to his capture and arrest, he often sported a pocket watch , though unlike his father's, his was golden in colour.

Being a Death Eater, he bears the Dark Mark on his inner left forearm. During this time, his face would be covered with scars, with chunks of his nose missing, and dark grey grizzled hair. He also took Alastor's prosthetics, both the magical eye and wooden leg, for his own. Barty was shown to have been intensely hateful, diabolical, scheming, evil, vengeful, cold, cruel, manipulative, callous, loyal, extremely intelligent, sadistic, shadowy, very arrogant, cunning, selfish and ruthless.

He was obviously a rather powerful wizard, having demonstrated sufficient magical ability to bewitch the Goblet of Fire into believing that four schools participated in the Triwizard Tournament in order for Harry to participate in the contest despite the object's power. Barty was also perceptively observant and exceptionally manipulative; his keen attention to the habits and motivations of others enabled him to impersonate Alastor Moody so accurately that he even managed to fool Albus Dumbledore.

Dangerously clever and fearsomely determined, Bartemius proved capable of orchestrating the events of the Triwizard Tournament so that Harry Potter would be transported to Voldemort, in order to ensure his master's return. Barty's high intelligence also made him bitingly cynical and he remarked how easy some people were to manipulate — he was capable of concern for his plans, and expressed his fear that Harry would have failed the Second Task.

He also expressed frustration for how slowly Harry progressed in Barty's plans, citing Harry's weakness of pride as the reason. Barty was extremely devoted to Voldemort and regarded him as a father figure.

His loyalty was matched only by fellow Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. He also seemed to know much of Voldemort's father , comparing him with his own father. This may imply that Barty was aware of Voldemort's status of being half-blood , but did not care, in contradiction to the Death Eaters' belief of pure-blood supremacy, or that Voldemort simply superseded the blood status. However, Barty's immense loyalty to Voldemort blinded him to those who truly loved him, namely his mother and the family's devoted house-elf Winky.

They sacrificed much to give him a second chance at a happy life, which Barty tragically wasted in his obsession to reunite with Voldemort. As with many other Death Eaters, Barty had deluded himself into believing that he alone understood Voldemort, and that they were closest to each other due to their commons, to which was in fact not true as Voldemort never desired a friend nor understood human affections.

The year he spent in Azkaban also furthered his mental decline, due to the effects of the Dementors. He was also likely very sadistic, not only did he participate in torturing the Longbottoms, but forced their son Neville Longbottom to watch a demonstration of the Cruciatus Curse on a spider, despite the latter's bizarre and panicked response.

However, this latter act could have been what the real Moody would have done himself, and possibly it was indeed to teach the students the harsh truths about the Curses. Crouch also loved Quidditch in his youth, a fact mentioned by Winky. Also, as a young man, he was extremely emotional, weeping and screaming before he was sent to the Dementors and pleading violently with his father to grant him leniency.

He screamed constantly in Azkaban — but this can be supremely expected among the prisoners of Dementors. This could be seen as hypocritical, as he snarled at Death Eaters for hiding and refusing to brave Azkaban in Voldemort's name, which is what he did himself. Barty was one of the only known wizards to call Voldemort by his name 'Voldemort' instead of using 'the Dark Lord' or a different version of it, saying his name while talking to Harry after the Third Task.

He was also the only known Death Eater to do so; even defectors such as Severus Snape and Regulus Black referred to Voldemort as "the Dark Lord", while fellow fanatically loyal Death Eater Bellatrix saw it as a sign of respect not to speak the name.

Crouch Junior was also shown to vehemently detest those who he viewed as cowardly, in particular Death Eaters who had abandoned Voldemort in order to protect themselves. Barty Crouch was very gifted and intelligent, whose potential as a wizard could be matched by only a select few. Armed with only the magical skills he had acquired throughout seven years of Hogwarts education, he successfully demonstrated sufficient magical ability to fool a whole school of learned academicians into believing him to be a seasoned Auror, speaking for his considerable skills.

Additionally, Crouch swiftly came up with a feasible strategy to help Harry Potter win the Triwizard Tournament after he placed the boy's name into the Goblet of Fire. His intelligence has been vouched for by even Lord Voldemort, who wholeheartedly entrusted him to be the one to guide Harry to the rebirth ceremony.

Barty Crouch Snr , his hated father. Crouch Jnr's father, as a high-ranking Ministry official, spent his entire life dedicated to eradicating the Dark forces, and as such, didn't pay enough attention to his own son. When Crouch Jnr was caught with other Death Eaters at the crime scene of torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom to insanity, his father's parental affection extended to as much as giving him a trial, something he did not always give other suspects.

In the end, the trial was merely to make an example out of his own son, and to publicly disown him, making clear he had nothing to do with anyone who would even remotely be connected to the committing of such a horrible crime. Crouch Snr mercilessly sentenced his own son to Azkaban for life. A little over a year later, the father, as a favour for his dying wife , smuggled him out of prison and kept him under control with the Imperius Curse for years to come.

By Crouch Jnr's claim, his father loved only his wife and not him, but this was only in his own perception. The elder Barty's willingness to sacrifice his wife to spend her last days in the horrific Azkaban to rescue their son may be indicating that he retained some paternal affection for him, despite many believed otherwise. It was this sentence that cost Crouch Snr his chance to become Minister for Magic , his position as Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement , and his wife to suffer her last few days in Azkaban.

When the elder Crouch was subjugated by Voldemort and escaped, he decided to tell Dumbledore of everything, including that he smuggled his own son out of prison; it was during this moment that Crouch in a delusive state expressed his regret to Harry Potter of mistreating and neglecting his son, blaming himself for the young man's choice of life. Crouch Jnr, in turn, hated his father, considering him to be a very disappointing parent.

Being sent to Azkaban for one year and imprisoned in his own mind for twelve only increased the friction between father and son. Crouch also claimed that he suffered the indignity of being named after his father and had the "great pleasure" of finally murdering him.

Adding insult to injury, he transfigured his father's body into a bone and buried it, showing callous, but understandable disrespect for the corpse with a crude method of disposing it. His mother loved him very much, and persuaded her husband to help him escape Azkaban.

He also apparently had some affection for his mother as it is revealed that he was "screaming for his mother" during his early days in Azkaban. She was about to die when her son was imprisoned, so she drank Polyjuice Potion and disguised as him to take his place at Azkaban.

She died a short time later, and was buried outside Azkaban. However, rather than start afresh and repent for his crimes, he tried to use the opportunity to look for Lord Voldemort and help bring him back to power, apparently his year in prison and hatred for his father caused him to forget his love for his mother, tragically wasting all of her efforts for him. Winky the house-elf was extremely loyal to the Crouch family , to the point of surpassing the mere house-elf's magical binding.

She took care of Crouch Jnr when he was smuggled out of Azkaban, and became his carer and keeper. She was extremely devoted to this duty, and was very motherly towards him, asking his father to reward him occasionally for good behaviour even though it was no more than a by-product of the Imperius Curse.

Winky spent months to persuade Crouch Snr to let his son attend the Quidditch World Cup, and tried to suppress her acrophobia in order to keep an eye on the hidden convict. This all proved how much she loved him, despite his crimes. She was devastated when she was dismissed for failure, and became horrified when she heard of how Crouch Jnr killed his father. Crouch Jnr, on the other hand, thought that Winky's motherly nature was only out of pity and magic-bound duty.

He launched the Dark Mark in the camp-site in order to scare disloyal Death Eaters, ignoring her efforts to keep him safe and hidden. He also showed no reciprocating affection for her as he ungratefully used her affections to achieve his goal of serving the Dark Lord, and gave a maniacal smile during his interrogation while she was there, the latter terrifying her. Lord Voldemort , his master and father figure.

In contrast with his real father, Crouch saw Lord Voldemort as a father figure of sorts, and after having been disowned by his own father, was fanatically devoted to him.

In fact, at that point, Crouch was willing to sacrifice and give absolutely everything to serve the Dark Lord. He also believed that if he finished off Harry Potter , he would be welcomed back, closer than a real son and honoured beyond his dreams.

Crouch's loyalty had led him to know many things about Lord Voldemort that even other loyal Death Eaters, such as Bellatrix, presumably do not.

Barty knew that Voldemort had a disappointing father , that he suffered the indignity of being named after that father, and that he had the great pleasure of killing his father to ensure the rise of the dark order.

This also implies that Barty was aware of Voldemort's blood status as a half-blood , but did not care, in contradiction to the Death Eaters' belief of pure-blood supremacy. It could very well be that Voldemort told Barty these similarities between the two and used them as a way to get Barty to join him. Voldemort could have simply told Barty about his father being disappointing while neglecting to reveal that Tom Riddle Snr was a Muggle.

Voldemort seems to have acknowledged Barty's worth, something his own father failed to do, referring to Barty as " his most faithful servant ". Crouch appears "dressed in an impeccably crisp suit and tie. Crouch is a man who excels at obeying rules, and "Mr. Crouch had complied with the rule about Muggle dressing [at the Quidditch World Cup] so thoroughly that he could have passed for a bank manager" 7. Obviously, following the rules is generally a good thing.

But we also see the bad side of Mr. Crouch's attachment to regulations almost immediately. When his house-elf, Winky, is found with the wand that cast the Dark Mark, Mr. Crouch fires her straight away — even as she weeps and begs for forgiveness. Though, as we learn later, he is madder about the whole losing track of Barty Crouch, Jr. And that's not all! Later in Goblet of Fire , Sirius adds, You saw him dismiss a devoted house-elf because she associated him with the Dark Mark again — doesn't that tell you what he's like?

Crouch's fatherly affection stretched just far enough to give his son a trial, and by all accounts, it wasn't much more than an excuse for Crouch to show how much he hated the boy Crouch is so ambitious — and so obsessed with fighting the Dark Arts — that he has authorized the use of Unforgivable Curses against suspects and he has sent people, including innocent Sirius, to Azkaban without a trial.

The only thing that stopped him from becoming Minister of Magic was the arrest and trial of his son: "Once the boy died [in Azkaban], people started [ We know a lot about what makes Mr. Crouch bad. He's power-hungry, and he's willing to sacrifice his own family to achieve his professional goals. He's also so intense about finding Dark wizards that he's willing to use pretty Dark magic himself to do it.