#he was only 19 when he tortured the longbottoms so hed go from being the golden boy of the school to that in the space of a few months

[lulululovegood]

I keep seeing Barty Crouch Jr depicted as always having been evil and sadistic and unhinged, and that is a valid interpretation. However, remember that he was a politician's son, and people were shocked when they found out he was a Death Eater. I prefer to think he was more secretive about it.

Give me prefect Barty. Head boy Barty. Give me a Barty who's so magnanimous and level-headed that he's the last person anyone would suspect to commit brutal torture. He knows how to act in public, to make people like him and trust him. I want it to come out of nowhere, I want the reveal to shock Hogwarts to its core.