#mr crouch

[callmesel]

I wonder is there is any fic about Percy getting a trial after Crouch Sr's death because I just can't fathom that no one was like "oh, I wonder what happen to Percy after they discovered his boss death when he was literally the only one in contact with him all the time"

[morsmortish]

I think mrs crouch birthed the worst of men and loved him anyways she loved him and nurtured him and feared him all the same she definitely also had a boys will be boys mentality that excused every heinous thing barty did unlike senior who saw exactly what kind of darkness lurked beneath

To me the only reason he didn’t do anything about barty right away is because of his wife the one thing he did was keeping him under imperius which definitely makes him a hypocrite but what can you do when your son is a sociopath who entertains himself through acts of violence?

This makes barty himself way more interesting because it makes everything he did lack motive and reason and makes his mind much more interesting to explore and it makes me wonder how that night at Azkaban really went

Did his mother actually want to take his place? Did he manipulate her? Beg her? Force her even? I personally choose to believe some weird freudian shit was going on because we don’t really have alot of that and also i can and no one can stop me

Mrs crouch vs Jocasta (odeipus’ mom/wife) 1v1 battle for who fucked up their son more

yes yes, barty’s reprehensible actions lacking any motive or reason from a ‘traumatic’ childhood makes him SO much more interesting. his mind is already so complex within that narrative, and this one pushes us to really explore him as a character and delve into the complexities of not only his own nature, but human (sociopathic??) nature itself.

jocasta and oedipus…barty and mrs crouch…oh. OH. barty with an oedipal complex…the resentment to his father? the closeness with his mother? i honestly can’t believe i’ve never thought about it this way before!!!

i have not much to add, but here’s one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite translations of oedipus that has now taken on a new meaning for me:

“Doomed man! May you never fathom who you are!” -Jocasta (Sophocles, 1170)

[tremblingdolll]

I wish people cared like the crouch family lore like they did with black family’s lore.

[snapeysister]

Funny thing, I bet by now no one has ever written a Percy Weasley/Mr Crouch fic, even though there is so much potential for it from the text (Goblet Of Fire). That'd have a huge potential to be either a crackfic or a deeply disturbing smut with a potential for unrequited love in it...!!

[marauders70s]

Sirius black rebel at heart who never once used an unforgivable curse on his wand (or any other) and his wand is never checked goes to prison without a trial under the SAME JUDGE who forced Harry's wand to spit back up conjuring a glowing skull at a sporting event lol okay that seems right

[myownstupidreality]

One thing (or many things in fact) makes me sad about the Harry potter movies, but this one particular thing is that they completely wiped out Dobbys existence during movies 4-6. I mean, in the fourth book he played a really big part by helping harry with the second task and the whole winky situation (who isn’t even mentioned in the movie, even though this is a really important part of the whole book, and you gain so much knowledge at the end of the book as to why Crouch acted the way he did throughout the book, and also why he was killed, and this involves winky). In the fifth book he is the one to tell harry about the room of requirement where they then proceeds to have their DA meetings, then later warns him while in there. Harry also entrusts Dobby with watching over Kreacher when he starts to work in the kitchens at hogwarts. So Dobby has practically saved Harry’s life twice, (since Harry told him not to in the end of the second book) before he saves harry and the other prisoners in Malfoy’a manor, where he also gets stabbed by a dagger Belatrix throws when they apparate. My point; Dobby plays a significantly larger role in Harry’s life than it is portrayed in the movies, and this really bugs me.

[quickquotesquill]

"Percy's enjoying work, then?" said Harry, sitting dowm on one of the beds and watching the Chudley Cannons zooming in and out of the posters on the ceiling. "Enjoying it?" said Ron darkly. "I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr Crouch ... as I was saying to Mr Crouch ... Mr Crouch is of the opinion ... Mr Crouch was telling me ... They'll be announcing their engagement any day now."

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 5- Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes