Moody's Dark detectors reacting to Crouch Jr.

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No: HPFGUIDX 39613

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> A little while ago this group had a serious of posts when one 
person theorized that all of Moody's dark detectors were detecing 
Crouch!Moody and thus were always active not by mistake but active 
for a very good reason.
> 
> I'm just finishing re-reading book 4 again and I realized that the 
theory can't be true. In the scene where Dumbledore gives Crouch Jr. 
the Veritaserum the Foe-glass has detected Dumbledore, Snape and 
McGonagall sneaking up behind Crouch!Moody and it even continued 
showing them after they knocked him unconcious. I think it's fair to 
assume the other detectors were also detecting his enemies and not 
him. 
> 

Ah. I've actually thought of that and was on the brink of posting 
when I remembered something. In PoA, Ron buys Harry a Sneakoscope; 
while he was tying it Errol, it whistled - because Ron shouldn't have 
been using Errol for such a distance. So, Sneakoscopes apparantly 
detect deception regardless of who the deceiver is - even when it's 
the person handling it. It's not sensitive to the direction of the 
deception, it seems, only to its presence.  

The Foe-glass, by definition, has to show *somebody's* enemies. 
There's probably some way you can recalibrate it so it will focuse on 
you. It would have come extremely useful for Crouch!Moody , which is 
probably why he didn't diconnect it.


Naama