Professor Moody in book 4

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51865

samnjodie wrote:
<snip>
[Moody's] 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? 

Grey Wolf wrote:
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2) Notice that, although you said "eager 
to teach the [DADA] classes about the unforgivable 
curses and how to repel them", that isn't the 
truth. He pays little to no attention to 
either Cruciatus or AK - he just says that 
they're impossible to block, and that's it 
(ok, so he teaches them an unspecified 
amount of theory, but he certainly doesn't 
teach them to resist them). 
<snip>

I reply:
Point of order here, but I don't think canon ever suggests that 
Cruciatus is un-blockable. Avada Kedavra is definitely unblockable.  
But Cruciatus? You got any canon on that one?


Something I didn't hear mentioned, that kind-of hinges on whether or 
not you consider Crouch!Moody to be a believable source of 
information or not is:

"To their surprise, Professor Moody had announced that he would be 
putting the Imperius Curse on each of them in turn...
<snip>
'Dumbledore wants you taught what it feels like,' said Moody...
<snip>"
(GoF, US hardcover, "Beauxbatons and Durmstrang," 230)

So, the question is, do we *believe* that Dumbledore actually wanted 
that? I'm skeptical, and I'm not sure that there's another reference 
to it in GoF.

-Tom