[HPforGrownups] Professor Moody in book 4

[Torsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 51805

samnjodie:
>I am just re-reading the goblet of fire and I am confused by some 
>apparent inconsistancies regarding Professor Moody. There are a few 
>others, but this is the big one; his identity was taken over by 
>Crouch from the night before Moody came to Hogwarts, so thereafter 
>Moody wasn't really Moody anymore.  But then why was he so eager to 
>teach the defense against the dark arts classes about the 
>unforgivable curses and how to repel them?  Isn't this the last thing 
>a death eater would want non-death eaters to be able to do? 

We discussed that not long ago, so I'll just repeat some things ...

He couldn't blow his cover, had to behave like the real Moody. That was the most 
important thing. Some kids being able to fight Imperio is a small price to pay for the 
return of Big V.

Also, it could have proved helpful to know who has it in him to fight Imperio, and who 
can be safely controlled.

Finally, Barty surely hated Imperio himself after spending more than a decade under it, 
so he might actually have wanted people to be able to fight it. He might have 
considered it something he didn't even want his greatest enemies to suffer.

-Torsten