Barty Crouch Jr.

Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Junior is a fictional character
from the Harry Potter series of books. He is the son
of Barty Crouch. He is portrayed in Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire by David
Tennant.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or
ending details follow.

Harry Potter character
David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr. in " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Jr.
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Blond (brown in film)
Eye colour	Unknown
House	Slytherin
Parentage	Pure-blood
Loyalty	Death Eater
Film portrayer	David Tennant, Brendan Gleeson (in disguise)
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Crouch (born circa 1963; suffered a Dementor's kiss in 1995) was a Death
Eater who was captured with the group responsible for torturing
Frank and Alice
Longbottom, parents of Neville Longbottom. His father, who headed
the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the time, sentenced
him to life imprisonment in Azkaban.

However, Crouch's father rescued him as a favour to his dying
mother by switching their bodies. Crouch's mother later died and
was buried under his name. His father kept him under control with
the Imperius Curse and
forced him to hide under an invisibility cloak at all times. Crouch
was nursed back to health by Winky,
the family's House-Elf. Bertha Jorkins
discovered the truth, and years later it reached Lord
Voldemort. He rescued Crouch and put his father under the
Imperius Curse. Crouch then kidnapped Mad-Eye
Moody and, with the help of the polyjuice potion, took over
Moody's job of teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts. His father
was later killed by Crouch himself.

The Triwizard Tournament was being held that
year and Crouch had to make sure that Harry won. When Harry touched the
Triwizard Cup it took him to a graveyard, via portkey, and his blood
was planned to be used to bring Voldemort back to power. The plan succeeded,
but Harry escaped.

Crouch planned to succeed where his master had failed, but
failed to kill Harry. Under the influence of Veritaserum, a powerful truth potion, he
recounted his plan and his intentions throughout the year. He was
to be watched over so that he could give his testimony later, but
instead, before he could come to trial, he had his soul sucked out
by Dementor's Kiss. It is important to note that he is
still technically alive, but one would hardly dare to identify what
he has been reduced to as "alive." It is never revealed what
happened to him after he had his soul sucked out, but it is assumed
he either died or was sent back to Azkaban.

In the movie, Crouch is shown in the dream Harry has during his
summer break, apparently having escaped from Azkaban on his own.
This disagreement with the book is presumably intended to simplify
the storyline.

Preceded by: Remus Lupin

Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher (disguised as Alastor Moody) August, 1994-June, 1995

Succeeded by: Dolores Umbridge

Azkaban

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Azkaban
Location	The North Sea
Affiliation	British Ministry of Magic
Permanent Residents	Dementors (now believed to have deserted) and convicted criminals
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Azkaban is the fictional wizard prison in the Harry
Potter series of books by J. K.
Rowling. Wizards who violate the laws of the British wizarding community are sent here (it
is not clear whether there are other prisons for wizards in other
countries, but this is probably so). By the start of the series,
Azkaban is guarded by the foul dementors
working under the British Ministry of Magic. Generally, only very
severe crimes are punished with a term in Azkaban. Many of the
prisoners were supporters of Lord
Voldemort.

According to Half-Blood
Prince, Azkaban is located "somewhere north of the North Sea,"
which may place it somewhere around the Shetland Islands. Azkaban is probably not
found on Muggle maps, as wizard land is often made hidden or
Unplottable (therefore keeping it secret from Muggles and even
sometimes from other wizards) and as a wizard prison, Azkaban would
probably be especially secretive.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or
ending details follow.

Azkaban has a horrible and justified reputation. Its remote
location is more of a precaution than a safety measure— the mass
presence of dementors renders the inmates incapable of happiness
and forces them to relive their worst memories, as they become
gradually helpless and very often severely insane. According to
Sirius Black, many inmates simply stop eating and eventually die of
starvation. As dementors are extremely difficult even to injure—the
only spell effective against them is the Patronus Charm, which only repels them—Azkaban
was long considered escape-proof.

Prime among the crimes for which someone can be sent to Azkaban
is the performing of one of the three Unforgivable
Curses: the Imperius
Curse, the Cruciatus
Curse, and the Avada
Kedavra. Performing one of these curses against any human is
punishable by an automatic life sentence at Azkaban.

Azkaban has not played a direct part in the series, but lurks in
the shadows. In Chamber of
Secrets, Hagrid is placed under temporary imprisonment there,
an experience so traumatic that he refuses to talk about it after
being released. Sirius Black becomes the first wizard known to
escape (Prisoner of
Azkaban), although it is later discovered that Barty Crouch Jr. escaped with the help of
his parents while Sirius was still imprisoned (Goblet of Fire).
Albus Dumbledore once declared in front of
the then Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, that he could easily break
out of Azkaban.

At the present moment Azkaban has been severely compromised;
Professor Dumbledore has always been vocal
in declaring that it was a mistake to guard Voldemort's greatest
supporters with those creatures who have the most to gain if
Voldemort returned to power. In Order of the
Phoenix he's proven right as the Dementors leave their
posts at Azkaban and join ranks with Voldemort. The prison is still
in use, but emasculated by the revolt of its wardens. Presumably
Aurors are
the only ones who stand between the convicts and their freedom.

Spoilers
end here.

Inspiration

Prisons are often put on islands because escape is made more
difficult. It has been often suggested that Azkaban is based on
Alcatraz Island in San
Francisco, as one of the most famous island prisons.
Similarities include:

• The names are similar


• They are both located on an island


• Both were believed escape-proof, until it was proved otherwise
  (though it is still believed that no one has escaped from Alcatraz
  and lived)


• Both are/were for high offenders, such as those who have
  committed murder

Phonetically, the name Azkaban might be a conflation of Alcatraz and
Baskerville. Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban contains echoes of Conan
Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Both feature escaped convicts (Sirius and Selden) and sinister
hounds supposedly portending death. J.K.
Rowling's hound is named "the Grim"; Conan
Doyle's marshy location is "Grimpen Mire".

The place may also be inspired partially by Angband, the
fortress of Morgoth found in the works of J.R.R.
Tolkien, as well as Devil's Island, the horrendous French
prison.