Old buds? was Moody-Crouch

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 18651

--- catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
> You could be right, but he does say it is a "great
> personal favour" 
> rather than a favour to the school, the MoM etc.  He
> also treats 
> Moody with slightly more familiarity than we are
> used to - I don't 
> think he often calls other teachers by their first
> names - at least 
> not in the presence of students, and I recall at
> least one instance 
> when he calls him Alastair instead of Professor
> Moody, which in my 
> mind shows that they have at least some
> history/friendship prior to 
> Hogwarts.  Also, we do not know exactly how much
> time they get to 
> spend together whilst at Hogwarts.


First off, thanks to Amanda for bringing this up! 
I've been meaning to ask this same question for quite
a while, and never got around to it.  I don't see any
evidence that Dumbledore and Moody are close personal
friends.  True, Dumbledore calls him "Alastor", but he
also calls both Snape and Lockhart by their first
names. (There may be other cases, but those are just
the ones I can think of off-hand.)  

I don't think that there's significant evidence either
way, but I think that assuming the Crouch-as-Moody
doesn't work because Moody and Dumbledore are friends
without any evidence that they *are* is a
little...odd.


Andrea

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