To be honest I think love potions are just as evil as Imperius. Possibly more so since the person under Imperius is apparently in a fog and persuaded/ordered to do things by an outside force while the person suffering from a love potion is forced to behave in certain ways, made to believe those behaviors are their own choices, and made to like it.
(That was why I never understod the disdain for Tom Riddle Senior. And I never understood why Tom Riddle Junior's choices were his fault. He was a victim for over a year and forced to enjoy every minute of it. When he's finally set free the loony who enslaved him has ruined his life, chased off the fiancee he actualy loved, saddled him with an unborn child that was basically the product of multiple rapes, and now expects him to love her. Frankly, I'm surprised he ever stopped running. And - Er... but this has nothing to with Barty Crouch Jr. so I'll shut up on it.)
As for Barty Crouch Jr... I got why he would go to Voldemort. I even understood why he would kill his father. I never thought that he knew what was going to happen to the Longbottoms. I always thought that he must have just joined the Death Eaters (almost literally as soon as he had his license to apparate). He gave info on his brutal father to Voldemort and in return Voldemort and his inner circle were kind to him. He was probably devistated when his 'protective' father-figure was destroyed. In his own less-violent way, he was probably just as distressed as the LeStranges over Voldemort's loss so the LeStranges brought him along on their quest to find Voldemort.
Despite his mark he was probably still a sweet, mostly naive boy before the Longbottoms were killed. And I think that if his father had shown him mercy at the trial, he may have been redeemable. After his father sent him to Azkaban and later enslaved him, though, I think that any sweetness the boy had was gone. His suffering made him his father's son - intelligent, driven, unforgiving, and cruel with a bloodlust. He was like a younger mirror!verse dark-Barty Crouch.
I never understood how an entire system, expecially such a small close-knit system like the wizarding world, could fail so many people so completely and utterly.
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Date: 2009-05-24 03:21 am (UTC)(That was why I never understod the disdain for Tom Riddle Senior. And I never understood why Tom Riddle Junior's choices were his fault. He was a victim for over a year and forced to enjoy every minute of it. When he's finally set free the loony who enslaved him has ruined his life, chased off the fiancee he actualy loved, saddled him with an unborn child that was basically the product of multiple rapes, and now expects him to love her. Frankly, I'm surprised he ever stopped running. And - Er... but this has nothing to with Barty Crouch Jr. so I'll shut up on it.)
As for Barty Crouch Jr... I got why he would go to Voldemort. I even understood why he would kill his father. I never thought that he knew what was going to happen to the Longbottoms. I always thought that he must have just joined the Death Eaters (almost literally as soon as he had his license to apparate). He gave info on his brutal father to Voldemort and in return Voldemort and his inner circle were kind to him. He was probably devistated when his 'protective' father-figure was destroyed. In his own less-violent way, he was probably just as distressed as the LeStranges over Voldemort's loss so the LeStranges brought him along on their quest to find Voldemort.
Despite his mark he was probably still a sweet, mostly naive boy before the Longbottoms were killed. And I think that if his father had shown him mercy at the trial, he may have been redeemable. After his father sent him to Azkaban and later enslaved him, though, I think that any sweetness the boy had was gone. His suffering made him his father's son - intelligent, driven, unforgiving, and cruel with a bloodlust. He was like a younger mirror!verse dark-Barty Crouch.
I never understood how an entire system, expecially such a small close-knit system like the wizarding world, could fail so many people so completely and utterly.