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Hermione Granger
The Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Mr. Crouch is an uptight and exacting individual who's very caught up in his own importance. Though the novel initially plays this for laughs--though Mr. Crouch has employed Percy for nearly three months at the start of the novel, he still doesn't know Percy's last name--this quality soon begins to take on a very sinister tone. Mr. Crouch fires his house-elf, Winky, for disobeying him at the Quidditch World Cup, which Hermione takes as an indication of how awful Mr. Crouch's character is. Later, Sirius says that Hermione interprets Mr. Crouch's character correctly: Mr. Crouch was responsible for putting Sirius and other suspected Death Eaters in Azkaban without a trial. Sirius explains that Mr. Crouch was, at that time, poised to become Minister of Magic but took his power and his goals too seriously. When it came to light that his son, Barty Crouch, was involved with the Death Eaters, Mr. Crouch sent his son to Azkaban and both his son and his wife died within the year. Harry notices that Mr. Crouch looks progressively sicker throughout the year and around Christmas, Mr. Crouch stops coming to work. A month before the third task, Mr. Crouch shows up on the Hogwarts grounds, seemingly mad but asking to speak to Dumbledore. He disappears before he has the opportunity. Later, Harry and Dumbledore discover that Barty Crouch and Mr. Crouch's wife swapped places using Polyjuice Potion and Mr. Crouch kept Barty at home under an Invisibility Cloak and the Imperius Curse. Though in all other cases Mr. Crouch seems to be a competent wizard, they learn that when Bertha Jorkins confronted him about this, Mr. Crouch didn't perform the Memory Charm properly and permanently damaged her memory. When Voldemort arrives on the Crouch doorstep, he places Mr. Crouch under the Imperius Curse--hence his absence from work--but eventually, Mr. Crouch begins fighting it. This is why Harry finds him on the Hogwarts grounds. Barty Crouch kills his father and, after transfiguring his body into a bone, buries him.
Mr. Crouch Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Crouch or refer to Mr. Crouch . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
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"Yes," said Hermione in a heated voice, "he sacked her, just because she hadn't stayed in her tent and let herself get trampled--"
"Hermione, will you give it a rest with the elf!" said Ron.
Sirius shook his head and said, "She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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"Crouch let his son off? I thought you had the measure of him, Hermione! Anything that threatened to tarnish his reputation had to go; he had dedicated his whole life to becoming Minister of Magic. 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...then he sent him straight to Azkaban."
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Chapter Thirty-Six
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"For heaven's sake, Dumbledore--the boy was full of some crackpot story at the end of last year too--his tales are getting taller, and you're still swallowing them--the boy can talk to snakes, Dumbledore, and you think he's trustworthy?"
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
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Mr. Crouch Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Crouch or refer to Mr. Crouch . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
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"Yes," said Hermione in a heated voice, "he sacked her, just because she hadn't stayed in her tent and let herself get trampled--"
"Hermione, will you give it a rest with the elf!" said Ron.
Sirius shook his head and said, "She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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"Crouch let his son off? I thought you had the measure of him, Hermione! Anything that threatened to tarnish his reputation had to go; he had dedicated his whole life to becoming Minister of Magic. 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...then he sent him straight to Azkaban."
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Chapter Thirty-Six
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"For heaven's sake, Dumbledore--the boy was full of some crackpot story at the end of last year too--his tales are getting taller, and you're still swallowing them--the boy can talk to snakes, Dumbledore, and you think he's trustworthy?"
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
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