[HPforGrownups] Re: Moody thoughts

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2932


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 1:10 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Moody thoughts


> <And I'm sure that (the real Moody excepted) most people don't go
> around wondering if their friend/acquaintance is actually someone
> else under Polyjuice, if that friend happens to be acting a bit off.
> Polyjuice probably isn't on the top 10 list of reasons.
> --Amanda>
>
> Exactly; Crouch's success at impersonating Moody depended on the same
> principle of misdirection that the Muggle version of magic is based
> on.  People see what they expect to see, and only a very paranoid
> person would even let the thought that Moody was not really Moddy
> cross his or her mind.

It seems that perhaps the only person paranoid enough to have readily
detected such a Polyjuice-based disguise was Mad-Eye Moody himself!

    - CMC