10 Harry Potter Characters Who Were Screwed Over By The Films

5. Barty Crouch Jr

A big part of the issue with his character might be down to miscasting - as much as we love David Tennant, his performance as Barty Jr is way over the top. The whole point of the twist is that you're not supposed to know that Alastor Moody isn't Alastor Moody, and that weird tongue thing that he does gives the game away pretty much immediately. More importantly, he isn't a great physical fit for the character. The court scene with Barty Crouch Jr is supposed to be heartbreaking - this is a 19-year-old kid begging his parents not to let them take him away to Azkaban, after all. With Tennant in the role, it's just super campy. We wish that there could have been a little bit more ambiguity with the character. At the end of the day, yes, Barty Crouch Jr is a nasty piece of work, but it would have been nice if the film could have resisted the urge to turn him into a Snidely Whiplash stock villain. The point of the character is that Voldemort preyed on an intelligent young boy who had a rocky relationship with his father, and ruined their entire family. This Barty Crouch seems less interested in his father's approval and more interested in tying women to railroad tracks.