Will Moody be back as DADA Prof. in book 6?

[justcarol67]

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> Annemehr:
 
> Always ready to oblige with quotes; it's handy keeping the books by
> the computer!  Actually, it's not quite the way you remember it:
> 
> "So -- straight into it. Curses. They come in many strengths and
> forms. Now, according to the Ministry of Magic, I'm supposed to
teach you countercurses and leave it at that. Im not supposed to show
you what illegal Dark curses look like until you're in the sixth year.
> ..." [GoF ch. 14] <snip>
>

Carol:
We've been so busy trying to determine whether DD would actually have
authorized Crouch!Moody to deviate from the standard lesson plan that
we've overlooked some interesting information provided by this
quotation. Once again I'm not sure that Barty is being quite truthful
here. His statement that the MoM wants him to "teach [the fifth years]
countercurses and leave it at that" sounds correct for that time--it's
pre-Umbridge and also predates the "parting of the ways" between Fudge
and Dumbledore, so standard DADA training was still okay. It also fits
with Dumbledore's policy of teaching DADA but not the Dark Arts as at
Durmstrang. It certainly forms a contrast with the MoM's policy the
following year--no countercurses, only theory, which provides as much
protection as the definition of "curse" in the dictionary.

I think, though, that "Moody's" statement that the MoM would allow him
to show the sixth- (and seventh-) year students what the illegal Dark
curses look like is a lie--the MoM would be violating their own law by
allowing him to do so, and they would certainly not authorize him to
Imperio the students, which by their own laws would send him straight
to Azkaban. (Notice that he doesn't use the textbook that the real
Moody ordered for the class, which I assume was MoM approved--I wonder
what it contained.) 

I also think his statement that curses "come in many strengths and
forms" is interesting (and no doubt true). I wonder what the legal
curses (as distinct from mere hexes and jinxes) might be and why the
students would need to form the D.A. the following year if he had
actually taught them the appropriate countercurses. I don't think he
did, though, because that would actually be helping them to fight
against his Master. He wouldn't teach the legal curses, either, for
the same reason and because he couldn't afford to risk exposure as
someone other than the law-abiding, law-enforcing ex-auror Moody by
openly and repeatedly violating the MoM guidelines as he had defined
them. The Unforgiveable curses were a special case. So what *did* he
teach the class for the rest of that year?

I do think the real Moody would be a good choice as the next DADA
professor as the person who started this thread suggested, but he
doesn't fit the pattern of a new character introduced at the beginning
of each book, and he'd probably be doomed if he took the position.
Still, *someone* had better teach them those countercurses, and it
can't be Harry because as far as we know, he hasn't learned them, either.

Carol, wondering if there's a countercurse for Imperio