by Athena Appleton » Tuesday 9 March 2004 10:22:57pm
Where'd you get the two-years-before-becoming-a-death-eater thing?
Regardless, I don't think Crouch Jr was part of Voldemort's inner circle, therefore I don't think he was actually a "death eater"... I think the deal with Frank and Alice Longbottom was the result of him being a rebellious teenager, probably not very loved by his father, got in with a bad crowd, and did something bad... he got caught on his first offense. We know from the past that some of the most helpful people to Voldemort may not have necessarily been Death Eaters (Quirrell, I don't think Wormtail really was, and I don't think Crouch Jr was), just willing to do bad things. And I think that's also what Sirius is referring to when he says the world's not made up of Death Eaters and good guys... there are those supporters in between who can be swayed to do evil things...
I wonder if Crouch Sr had not been quite so harsh on his son for the years he was under house arrest if Crouch Jr would have still gone to the extreme and done what he did to Moody and everything that happened in GoF...?