I suppose that makes sense in a way, since the evil side is about submission to a leader. In general, if you are terribly competent and confident in your own power you will be less likely to give that all over to follow someone else. The only ones who are competent are those who firmly believe in the cause.




Hm, yes. It is down to Rowling's books being detective novels, basically. And like the Holmes stories, or Poe (ad fontes...), the Watson style character must be the reader's channel of information. And Rowling is a strong believer in the "showing, not telling" school of writing. She would therefore be reluctant to have someone tell Harry the story of how Crouch got ... what term would be the appropriate one? de-souled?




Hmmm, maybe. Although considering the possibility that Voldemort could gain access to the whole of the information Harry holds, that would be a bit of a gamble.




Yes, you are probably right.