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Arthur Weasley ([personal profile] alt_arthur) wrote2011-10-10 09:24 am

Order Only: Apparently our rejoicings were premature

MLE has just announced that Barty Crouch, Jr is alive.
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[personal profile] alt_alice 2011-10-10 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems like an awful lot of fuss in order to commit matricide.

Added to that, why on earth would he want to in the first place? From what Tonks has passed along to me, I get the impression that Nora Crouch is quite the doormat.
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[personal profile] alt_poppy 2011-10-10 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, indeed.

Did you see what Dora said about her foster mother yesterday? Answering something Molly said, I believe, about the Crouches seeming very cold. It was the most I've ever heard her share about them.
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[personal profile] alt_sirius 2011-10-10 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
She's had a deal to say on occasion but mostly when she's in a black foul mood to begin with. Can't blame her; I shouldn't like to dwell on any time spent in that household, if I were her.

We've compared notes from time to time, though. Mainly by way of reassuring her that life with her grandmother or great-aunt wouldn't have been any better. And possibly a good deal worse.
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[personal profile] alt_sirius 2011-10-10 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's most likely she heard about Barty and offed herself. Dora says the one constant in Mrs Crouch's life was her devotion to her son. Disconsolate, I reckon. If the stories about her jumping were true, anyway.

Or maybe the old man did it to be rid of an albatross.