Crouch family

Crouch is the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family.

The Crouches were a family of high status within the wizarding community. Bartemius Crouch Sr. was a high-ranking and influential officer in the Ministry of Magic, and it was widely believed that he would have become Minister for Magic. The families fortunes however took a turn for the worse when it was discovered that Bartemius Crouch Jr. was a Death Eater. As Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Crouch gave his son a life sentence in Azkaban, but fulfilled his dying wife's last wish which was to switch her with her imprisoned son with the assistance of Polyjuice Potion. Bartemius Jr. killed his father in 1995 and received the Dementor's Kiss as a result. After his death, the Crouch family is likely to have become extinct.

Family Members

 * Bartemius Crouch Sr.
 * Bartemius Crouch Jr.
 * Caspar Crouch
 * Charis Crouch née Black
 * Mrs. Crouch