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| |image= ]<br><small>Gleeson as fake Professor Mad-Eye Moody in '']''.</small> | |||
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| '''Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody''' is an ex-] working for the ]. Moody's character is portrayed as a teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in ''Goblet of Fire''. It is not revealed until the climax of the book that the teacher is actually an impostor and the real Alastor Moody has been imprisoned in a magical trunk for most of that time. | |||
| Moody is perhaps the most famous ] in modern times, single-handedly responsible for capturing numerous wizard criminals. He is also said never to have killed his quarry "if he could help it". Moody's face is badly scarred, described as looking as if it had been "carved out of wood by a person with only the crudest understanding of the human face". He has lost several body parts, including his left ], right lower ], and part of his ], in fighting practitioners of the ], and is cautious - some might say paranoid - in that he refuses to eat or drink food which he has not himself prepared. His magical eye can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, invisibility cloaks and the back of his own head). He walks with a pronounced limp due to his prosthetic leg, and uses a walking staff. | |||
| In '']'', Moody is appointed as the new ] teacher at ], coming out of retirement as a favor to Dumbledore. Shortly before the school year begins, however, Moody is attacked by ], who subdues him with the Imperius Curse takes ] to assume his appearance. He keeps the real Moody alive so that he can be interrogated about his mannerisms and memories, and takes Moody's place at Hogwarts teaching Defense Against The Dark Arts. Moody's well-known habit of carrying around his own drinks in a private hip flask allows Crouch to take the Polyjuice Potion as needed without raising suspicion. | |||
| Moody becomes noted for teaching and demonstrating otherwise higher-level topics to Harry's fourth-year class, such as the ]. Crouch/Moody also mentors Harry, encouraging and tutoring him in the three Tournament tasks. But after Harry unexpectedly returns alive from the graveyard battle with Voldemort, Crouch/Moody takes Harry back to his office, questions him about Voldemort and the graveyard, and reveals that he is in fact working on Voldemort's behalf. He then prepares to kill Harry, expecting to be rewarded, but he is stopped by ], ] and ]. Having neglected to take his hourly dose of Polyjuice potion, Crouch transforms back to his own appearance and, under the influence of ], confesses everything. Dumbledore then rescues the real Moody from his magic trunk. {{HP4}} | |||
| In ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', Moody has joined the newly re-formed ], and leads the party transfering Harry from 4 Privet Drive to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, accompanied by fellow Order members ], ] and ], among others. He appears at the climax of that book, arriving at the ] after being tipped off by ]. He also appears with Lupin and Tonks at the very end, when they give the Dursleys a warning concerning their treatment of Harry. {{HP5}} | |||
| Moody's appearance in ''Half-Blood Prince'' is minimal, appearing only as a cameo at Dumbledore's funeral. In '']'', Moody is killed by ]; falling off his broom after he is abandoned by ], who is acting as a decoy. The survivors are unable to recover his body, but later his eye is found by Harry Potter upon ]'s door, being used as a security measure. Harry steals the eye, disgusted that it would be used in such a way, and later buries it at the base of an old tree in Mad-Eye's memory. | |||
| Irish actor ] plays Moody on screen in '']'' and in '']'' | |||
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