- Colin outright says his father was a milkman. So this would raise one of two possibilities:
- Colin's and Dennis's dad was a wizard posing as a milkman so he could see their mother. Which would play this trope straight as an arrow.
- The Creevey's dad was a milkman being cheated on by his wife. Which would flip the trope on its ear.
- Actually JK Rowling has said before that muggle parents are very much capable of having more than one child who is magical. Cheating is not needed at all. Remember, muggle-borns are descended from squibs who married muggles. So either the mom or the dad just has to have the stronger genes to produce more than one. So Mr. Creevey could still very much be their bio dad. And hey, the magical gene could have been from HIS side anyway. Mrs. Creevey just might be pure muggle blood for all we know.
- Colin outright says his father was a milkman. So this would raise one of two possibilities:
- He did a damn good job of teaching DADA. In particular he taught Harry to fight the Imperius Curse, which comes to fruition at the climax.
- He’s the first person to compliment Neville’s skills - leading to him becoming the leader of the Resistance in Book Seven.
- That was actually Lupin in the lesson about the boggarts. And, presumably, Prof. Sprout, since she tells Moody that Neville is great in herbology - which fake!Moody then uses for his own nefarious purposes. After all, he only praises Neville and gives him that book so that he learns about gillyweed.
Why? Well, it’s never proven that Barty Crouch, Jr. was guilty of the crimes for which he was sent to Azkaban. What we do know is that he spent several years in Azkaban, followed by more time under the Imperius Curse. Perhaps he was “radicalised” in prison? Perhaps he was attracted by the politics of Voldemort (blood purity etc) but realised the death that would follow and felt it was a bridge too far?
- He has the dark mark, so he clearly was a deatheater. Even if he didn't participate in the torture of the Longbottoms and was repelled by the violent methods, then why did he help Voldemort come back? Unlike in the case of the analogy to the Danish Nazi occupation, Crouch wasn't pressured to do anything, since Voldemort was not in power. In fact, he was only able to get a body again with the help of Crouch. If he thought blood purity wasn't worth all the death and violence, he just wouldn't have bothered bringing Voldemort back.
- Suddenly, Dudley throwing it out the window makes a lot more sense...
- Considering he has the dark mark, and how Voldemort calls him his most loyal servant, it's clear he was a Death Eater long before he went to Azkaban.
How the hell did Barty Crouch Jr. manage to impersonate Mad-Eye Moody for a full year? Physically, he had Polyjuice Potion, that's logical. But Moody was one of Dumbledore's oldest friends (and it's implied Hagrid's as well). Crouch Jr. also had to repeatedly liaise with Ministry officials like Fudge and Ludo Bagman, many of whom had worked with Moody. Yes, he had access to Moody, so he used the Imperius Curse to get information out of him. But imagine the level of detail required. From the timeline in the books, Crouch Jr. had less than 12 hours after replacing Moody to interrogate him, and figure out how Moody walked, talked, and behaved, before he had to be at Hogwarts.
For instance, one thing we know about the real Moody is how he's incredibly paranoid... and that paranoia often paid off. Upon meeting Harry for the first time in Order of the Phoenix, Moody immediately performs a check to see if Harry has been replaced or controlled, by asking him a question only he'd know. It seems fair to assume that Moody thus has some kind of code word or security question for his close friends, including Dumbledore. Also, given his extreme paranoia, Moody may even have created a fake code word, to be told to his kidnappers, then informed his friends that if he'd been replaced, he'd have his kidnapper say that word. Given the Imperius Curse, Crouch Jr. could have forced it out of him. But, as we learn through Harry, plus Crouches Jr. and Sr., people can resist the Imperius Curse, or at least, maliciously comply, giving only partial information. One of the top Aurors in history seems like he'd have plenty of practice doing just that.
When he arrives at Hogwarts, Crouch Jr. already has a large supply of Polyjuice potion on hand. That means that Wormtail must have had access to potion materials, as well as knowledge and time to brew a complex potion. It makes sense that Wormtail would have been brewing Polyjuice on his own, since he'd have to in order to stay in human form while out in public and not get recognized (which would ruin the frame-job on Sirius). From that, it is possible to make the logical assumption that maybe Pettigrew also made some Felix Felicis. By having Crouch Jr. take a few drops of that at key points where he cannot afford to slip up, he could easily manage to get lucky: saying just the right things, acting just the right way. We only see him interact with Dumbledore a few times, so he wouldn't need much of it. He also likely used it to make sure his plan went off well. After all, Crouch Jr.'s entire plan hinged on a large number of tiny details going right: He has to be capable of confounding the Goblet of Fire (which was an extraordinarily difficult magical feat), then have Harry be allowed to compete (instead of, y'know, just having him show up at every event and choose to forfeit), then have Harry succeed in his tasks, have Neville and Dobby help Harry, have Harry be the first to the cup, etc. Using Felix Felicis would allow him to shift the odds on those events, augmenting his planning even more.
Despite the film version basically depicting both Beauxbaton and Durmstrang as all-girl and all-boy schools respectively, in retrospect it makes no sense to depict them that way. They are suppose to be two of the “big eleven” wizarding schools of the wizarding world. Would these two prestigious schools that pretty much represent mainland Europe really segregate the genders like that? And it would make one think, where would the French boys (and other boys of western and southwestern Europe) go? And where would the Northern and Eastern European girls go? Especially since many families of Europe would want their children to go to these schools regardless if they are a son or daughter. Not to mention Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel met at Beauxbaton and with Nicolas now part of the cast of the Fantastic Beasts series, that fact is bound to pop up at some point.
So perhaps the real reason why we only see girls from Beauxbatons and boys from Durmstrang, is simply because the heads of both schools, Maxime and Karkaroff are just quite bias and sexist. Olympe Maxime only favored her female students and wanted to bring some of her favorites to Hogwarts; and likewise Igor Karkaroff only favored his male students and brought some of his personal favorites as well. Leaving behind the rest of the girls and all the boys at Beauxbatons and the rest of the boys and all the girls at Durmstrang.
