Bartemius Crouch Senior

**Bartemius Crouch**, also known as **Barty Crouch** and formerly known as **Barty Crouch Senior**, is the Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation and Britains Chief Delegate to the ICW.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Barty Crouch Junior is a member of House Crouch, an Ancient and Noble House of the Wizengamot. Cantankerous Nott considered House Crouch to be among the Sacred 28.

According to Tiberius Nott, Crouch's son Barty Crouch Junior and Narcissa Black were the only ones among the Death Eaters who could boast of blood as pure as his.

### Early Life

Bartemius Crouch was born sometime prior to 1940. He was likely educated about the Anathema Codex alongside his cousin Augusta.

Bartemius Crouch attended Hogwarts alongside Elaine Doge, to whom he was betrothed from a young age. The two never got along, and Crouch fell in love with fellow student Melinda Burke instead. Crouch and Elaine married after graduation, but discovered to their dismay that they could not take Amortentia, as Crouch was deathly allergic to one of its ingredients. Despite this they still did what they considered to be their duty, and had four children; a son named Magnus, two daughter named Olympia and Juno, and finally another son named Trajan.

Crouch's first marriage ended when Elaine's life was tragically cut short in February of 1960, after Martha Bracewell, one of Alexander McAvity's successors, set of a bomb at the Marriage Contract Registry Office, where Elaine worked. The following year Crouch remarried to Melinda, his former school sweetheart, and she gave birth to a fifth child named Bartemius Crouch Junior. All five of Crouch's children attended Hogwarts, and all five were sorted into Ravenclaw. Olympia was sorted in the same year as Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett.

### First Wizarding War

Crouch was fervently opposed to the Death Eaters, and pushed for the Aurors to be given freeer reign over what spells they could use against them. He personally authored the legislation that allowed aurors to use Unforgivables and then wrote the DMLE guidelines governing how they could be used in the field. Artemus Podmore would later describe these guidelines as lax and went as far as to call Crouch fascistic.

At some point during the War, not long after his graduation from Hogwart, Barty Crouch Junior joined the Death Eaters as Mr. January, quickly rising to become a part of Voldemort's Inner Circle. As a Death Eater Crouch Junior was partially responsible for the deaths for his older half-siblings and their children; Olympia was murdered alongside her husband's family at the 1979 Fawley Christmas Party, which exterminated the entire house in a single night; Juno was personally murdered by Barty Junior alongside her fiancé Lancelot Marchbanks, heir to House Marchbanks; and Trajan was tortured with the Cruciatus Curse before being murdered by Barty Junior. Magnus was the only one not to die at Barty Junior's hands, dying in the line of duty as a Hit Wizard in 1977, before his brother graduated and took the Dark Mark. This left Barty Junior, his father, and their cousin Augusta Longbottom as the last living members of House Crouch by the end of the War.

Barty Junior was captured not long after Voldemort's fall and exposed as a Death Eater, leading to him being given a life sentence in Azkaban by a judicial panel headed by his own father. He was said to have died in Azkaban, but a day before his supposed death he was visited by his parents.

### Post-War

Sometime after his "death" Barty Crouch Junior was memory charmed into believing he was the Muggle Bartholomew Janosky, the orphaned son of the American Richard and Jane Janosky, who went bij Johnny Janosky and spent his twenties partying on Ibiza.

In 1990 Minister for Magic Millicent Bagnold announced she would not be running for reelection, leading to a race where Crouch Senior ran virtually unopposed, until Xenophilius Lovegood ran an expose in the Quibbler, framing Crouch as a neglectful father who had damned his own son. In a later interview with the Prophet Crouch stated that when he became Minister he would look into having Lovegood jailed for sedition, leading Cornelius Fudge to surge in popularity and eventually claim the position of Minister. After the election Fudge appointed Crouch as Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation and Britains Chief Delegate to the ICW.

### Book 1 - The Prince of Slytherin

After Algernon Longbottom hides away the Longbottom Rememberall to prevent his grandnephew Neville Longbottom from regaining his Obliviated memories, Augusta Longbottom acquires a replacement from her cousin Barty Crouch, as with his lack of heirs he had no use for a spare Rememberall.

### Book 3 - The Death Eater Menace

Crouch attends the Wizengamot's Emergency Session held in response to the Azkaban Breakout.

### Book 4 - The Resurrection Game

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## References

Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 147 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 2),

"Director Crouch (he'd had the "Sr." struck from his official stationery years before after the incarceration of his Death Eater son) was flanked by a number of other Ministry personnel".
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 149 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 4),

"Silly really, since out of that illustrious group, only Narcissa, Barty Jr., and the Dark Lord himself could boast blood as pure as his own.".
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 149 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 4),

Barty was widowered in 1957.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 89 - Azkaban,

Augusta mentions her familiarity with the Crouch Codex.
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Chapter not added yet,

Percy travels to Crouch Manor to deliver a report.
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 149 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 4),

Barty Crouch Senior opens up to Percy about his feelings towards McAvity.
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 5 - Introductions on a Train,

"Barty Crouch Jr. was a Ravenclaw,".

Artie tells Harry about the 1990 Election between Barty Crouch and Cornelius Fudge.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 132 - Lords of the Wizengamot,

"In 1971, Barty Crouch had five children and two grandchildren. Ten years later, he had no living relatives at all save for his estranged cousin Augusta.".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 105 - Chaos in Hogsmeade (Finale),

Snape reveals what he learned from Rabastan Lestrange.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 107 - Interlude No.1,

Mr. January is reborn.
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 17 - Interlude by the Lake Shore,

Neville explains how he regained his memories.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 90 - Reactions & Overreactions (Pt 1),

Harry goes to his first Wizengamot Session.