"Some people were born just so they could be buried."

― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time


1995, Trial of Igor Karkaroff, Courtroom ten, Ministry of Magic

Karkaroff: " BARTY CROUCH…JUNIOR."

Barty Jr, a disturbed, mad and insane man, does not deny his participation in the most horrendous crime in history. He was proud of what he did to the Longbuttons:

Barty Jr. and the other Death Eaters tortured the Longbutton couple to insanity and madness.

Voldemort was delighted when he learned what happened on that windy and foggy night.

His attempt to escape from the courtroom failed, because he was detained by that wretched Moody. Barty Jr. was then caught by the police and was taken before his father, a sad man. His father wore a ceremonial black overcoat jacket, which everyone in the auditorium wore.

Shock, terror, anger, hatred and contempt were written all over his father's face. Even so, Barty Jr. defied him.

Barty Junior's sarcastic and crazy smile never left his face. Barty Jr. wanted to see his shocked reaction, and he did.

Barty Jr., the defendant, did not beg his father to acquit him of his conviction. Barty Jr. did not want to be exempted from any just punishment. He accepted the decree. His father did not even need to decree it, because Barty Jr. was rushed to prison.

1995, Hogwarts

Barty Jr. had only one goal: to be loyal and faithful to his dark master, a father he never had, until the very end. His way of showing his devout loyalty to Lord Voldemort was to capture Harry Potter.

After the Quidditch World Cup, Barty Jr. almost captured the boy who lived. However, he failed miserably in the mission given to him by Lord Voldemort.

Barty Jr. set his eyes on Snape, the one who captured him. Snape pointed his wand at the criminal's face while Barty was sitting. Snape stuck his wand into his skin, deeper. Barty Junior saw that Snape was very surprised when he discovered that it was him posing as Moody.

Snape, like Dumbledore and Minerva, were shocked, because Barty Jr. should have been in Azkaban (People did not know about Mrs. Crouch and Mr. Crouch's plan. Voldemort found out. accidentally, through Bertha Jarkins).

Barty Junior observed Snape's features: concern was registered in Snape's eyes.

By now Snape must have realized the lengths Lord Voldemort was willing to go to achieve his goal: to capture Harry Potter and kill him.

So far, Barty Jr. was the only Death Eater loyal to Voldemort.

Malfoy: A coward; Snape: Switched sides; Peter Pettigrew: Hid like a rat to avoid being caught; Bellatrix, Rodulphus, Rabastan, Antonin; Augustus, Travers, and Malciber: Were imprisoned in Azkaban [along with Barty Jr., but Barty Jr.'s family got him out of lifelong confinement].

1995, Dungeons (Ministry detention area)

He was chained up at Hogwarts. Arriving in these dungeons, he was given prison robes to dress in.

He was silent and sullen.

Until the day of his hearing, Barty Jr. was plunged into the deadness of silence.

At the hearing, this time, Barty Jr. would be inside the cage, and not free and loose, sitting in the bleachers, those benches with high seats.

His mother was dead.

In the past, Mrs. Crouch's tears had saved him. But now, Barty Jr. would have no one to save him.

His father was dead.

Barty had no one to cry for him, no one to look at him with that sad face of his father. The faces of the dead, the faces of the damned. The warm cries of his sweet mother, the icy blizzards of his father.

The day of the trial arrived: The hearing would be in the same room where Barty had defied his father.

Barty Jr. was sent to the tenth court.

By order of the guards, he, who was already inside the prison cage, was lifted up into the octagonal and symmetrical hall.

The splendor of the room lay in its structure: It was a square room, with benches rising in tiers along each wall. The marbled room had black walls and beige columns.

Lit by torches, the room held at least two hundred people. The room had two exits: One would lead to the dungeons where Barty Jr. was temporarily held, and the other to the upper floors of the ministry building. Built in the shape of domes and round arches, the ceilings, entrances and moldings were stony, polished and cold.

The atmosphere was gloomy, full of silent agitation, dreadful disturbance and fearful revolt. The boiling and reigning silence was mournful and fearful for some and for others it was cold and stormy. People stirred silently in their seats as Barty Jr., who was inside the cage, stepped up.

Everyone looked at him with dread and fear.

The few murmurs and discreet conversations died down when a bureaucrat wizard, the one who had replaced Barty Jr.'s father, rose from his seat. The old wizard extended his arm and closed his hand. This was a way to silence the disorderly wave that could anarchize and disorder the people in the audience.

The man took out a dusty yellow parchment. The old man read in a very loud and firm voice all the crimes committed by Barty Jr.

Barty Crouch Jr., a hardcore Death-Eater, was convicted of the following crimes: The torture of the Longbuttons in 1981 by the use of Cruciatus curse; The murder of Bartemius Crouch Senior.; The usage of ideological falsehood, posing as Professor Alastair Moody; The use of moral, psychological, verbal and physical harassment on students at Hogwarts and for having escaped Azkaban in 1982.

"Bartemius Crouch Jr., you are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban. In Azkaban, your cell will be your grave. It will be the most isolated and darkest of cells. You will not see the moon die and the sun resurrect; you will not see the change of the summers. You will not see the sky lighten, you will not hear the winds howl, you will not feel the weather freeze and you will not hear the sounds of the melodies of the sea . You will only have shadow, loneliness, abandonment and justice as your solace."

The serious wizard banged the gavel on the solid brown table, putting an end to the session.

Barty Jr. screamed and shouted hysterically, very shrilly; his defiant eyes glared at the audience; his tongue flicked; his macabre smile was long and curved upwards, showing his white, slightly clenched teeth; his pale feature was frightening, insane and mad. His voice was hideous and hoarse.

"The Dark Lord has returned! Lord Voldemort walks once more! Beware, for our Dark Lord has returned! He will take his rightful place! He will kill Harry Potter. The world will bow before our Dark Lord. My Lord has risen! My Lord will rule this world!"

"Take the prisoner away!"

"ARGH ARRGH AARGH!" Barty Junior screamed. His pointed tongue flicked, but it did not lick the edges of his thin, dry and damaged lip.

He writhed inside the small cage. He was mad and hysterical. As the cage was lowered, people became afraid and they screamed in terror.

As he said: He would be welcomed back to Azkaban as a hero.