“If there's something I hate more than any other, it's a Death Eater who walked free. They turned their backs on my master when he needed them most. I expected him to punish them. I expected him to torture them. Tell me he hurt them, Harry.... Tell me he told them that I, I alone remained faithful... Prepared to risk everything to deliver to him the one thing he wanted above all... You.” - Bartemius Crouch Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Year 4)
Once a charming, up-and-coming politician, Bartemius, or Barty, Crouch Jr. ruined his chances at life and his father’s chances of becoming Minister of Magic over political opponent Cornelius Fudge, due to the scandal caused by his involvement with the murderous and violent wizarding terrorist group known as the Death Eaters, after the fall of Voldemort, their leader, in 1981.
Barty was once a well-respected pureblood with a political future ahead of him. Possibly joining the Aurors like his father, or perhaps going into a separate division like Regulating Foreign Policy (where he would help with MACUSA and other wizarding governments), but all his privileges were stripped away by one man: his father. Bartemius Crouch Senior, previously Head Auror who had been running for the position of Minister for Magic during the downfall of Voldemort, had to catch his own son who had, along with Bellatrix Black, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange, tortured the Longbottoms, Alice and Franke, (Neville’s parents) into drooling insanity, was harsh in his son’s punishment. Likely not only outraged that his only child and heir was ruining his future, but had also cost him his own. Perhaps it was jealousy of his power, or the ability to care not of what others thought about him, but Bartemius (when I say Bartemius, from now on, I will refer to Bartemius Snr. and Barty will refer to Bartemius Jr.) cared not of his father nor the impending doom of Azkaban, but only of his Master: The Dark LOrd Voldemort.
He is, what we could align as Neutral or Chaotic Evil with Lawful tendencies. This means that he can go from periods of not caring, or extremely apathy, to a taking great pleasure in sporadic and meaningless, to all but him and a handful of others, acts that could be considered morally wrong, especially the act of hurting someone and the pleasure granted from harming another, and lawful as he bows to one Master, and he respects his authority and commands without question, granting his master complete control over him to do as he wishes.
Barty’s mother, and Bartemius’ wife, died of cancer polyjuiced as her son while a man of authority abused his position as Head of the AUrors to break his son out of Azkaban for his wife, whom he loved unconditionally, and she loved Barty much more than her husband, or so we can assume by her disregard for his orders of his son’s imprisonment and her forcing her husband to help her plan an escape for the son he could have easily falsified information for and claimed as innocent. Barty was kept under the Imperius curse (one of the three Unforgivable Curses) by his father for years after his imprisonment and was taken care of by the Crouch house elf Winky. He was even escorted to the Quidditch World Cup by Winky who had Barty hidden under an invisibility cloak! Bartemius allowed his son out of the house for a game of Quidditch in which other suspected but unconvicted Death Eaters would be attending. It makes one wonder his own sanity and reasoning for doing such a stupid thing.
On to Barty though, since we’ve spoken enough of his history and his father, he was one of the most loyal followers of the Dark Lord Voldemort. In fact, he would rather spend his life in Azkaban, a notoriously horrible prison filled with disgusting creatures like dementors, boggarts and other non-beings who prey on sad memories and fear, than renounce his connection to the Dark Lord. One could even say he was in love with the man, perhaps not romantically, but he certainly felt something if he was so dedicated. There was only one followers who I could compare Barty to, and that is Bellatrix Black Lestrange, who was very similar in her protests and claims of her relationship with the Dark Lord.
So is he obsessed or in love, or perhaps he feels a familial bond with the Dark Lord where his father lacked.
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