[HPforGrownups] Moody's Dark Detectors

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 58470



Kelly Grosskreutz <ivanova at idcnet.com> wrote:
Melanie wrote:

> Okay, talking about Moody and the Invisibility Cloak made me think of
> something else that bugged me about the end of GoF and Crouch
> Jr.-As-Moody.
>
> Crouch!Moody and Harry are sitting in the office, where Crouch Jr. is
> expounding about his part in Voldie's plan. Harry starts seeing shadows
> in the Foe Glass getting clearer and clearer, until DD breaks down the
> door with a bang, knocking out Crouch Jr. DD's, Snape's and McGonagall's
> faces are now clearly seen in the Foe Glass.
>
> Problem - this was *Moody's* Foe Glass. Those 3 people are not *Moody's*
> enemies. Does it re-set itself for a new owner? Or did he change it over
> himself? Crouch Jr. was young when he was a DE, then carted off to
> Azkaban, then back home to spend all those years at home, I don't think
> he had many chances to learn how to do things like setting a Foe Glass
> for one's own personal use. I know it would have lessened the bang of
> "he's so wrapped up in what he's doing he's forgetting to pay attention"
> but still, I think the Foe Glass should have remained empty that night.

I always took it as the foe glass, after all this time, taking Crouch!Moody
as its owner.  His foes would therefore be reflected in the glass.  If the
Glass constantly stayed set for one person forever, there is no way one
could ever be given to anybody as a gift or an heirloom.  Does it say
anything anywhere in the books about Foe Glasses being strictly tools for
Aurors?  If not, maybe they are something that are a little more readily
available, and therefore Crouch would've learned how to reset it.  Maybe his
father even had one at one time.

Kelly Grosskreutz

ME:  Actually, we can take that one more time.  I doubt very seriously Snape's, Dumbledore's or McDougall's face ever showed up in the Dark Detector before that final time. He couldn't have a Dark Detector that showed Dumbledore's face everytime he came near up on his wall! So obviously the intentions of the foes play the key role as to whether they show up as enemies or not.  They were always his enemies but it wasn't intil they themselves realized it did they become so in the "eyes" of the Dark Detector.  And just as certainly, the Dark Dector would show the enemies of whomever is in procession of it.  Huggs Becky



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