[HPforGrownups] Moody's injuries & the Longbottoms (Re: Eye Damage)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 158452

>    Jen:
> Then for the Longbottom trial, Moody is absent with no explanation. It
> all fits together so neatly--he's one of the best Aurors, he must know
> Frank and Alice since they work together, and four of Voldemort's most
> zealous supporters were captured. Who else likely did the job? That
> means Moody may yet have information about what happened to Neville
> the night of the torture, who the Secret Keeper was for the
> Longbottoms, and other mysteries yet to be resolved.
>
>

>
Debbie:
Are you sure the Longbottoms had a Secret Keeper?  Canon seems to be very
consistent that Voldemort went after the Potters.  That's what Fudge says at
the Three Broomsticks in PoA, and what Dumbledore tells Harry in OOP ("He
chose you, Harry.").

That's not to say that the Longbottoms were not protected.  But Dumbledore
was aware of the prophecy for a very long time before Voldemort acted upon
it.  The Secret Keeper plan was not implemented until he received specific
intelligence that Voldemort was after the Potters.

So maybe, instead of a Secret-Keeper, the Order was guarding the
Longbottoms' house like they were guarding Harry at the beginning of OOP.
And maybe Moody was on duty the fateful night.  However, I doubt it.  If his
assailants gouged out his eye, he would have seen them.  If so, he
could have testified, and there wouldn't have been so many doubts about
Barty Crouch Jr.'s involvement.  There's also the bit about the Longbottoms'
testimony being unreliable, suggesting that it was necessary for a
conviction.

No, I tend to think that Moody lost his eye when he closed in on the
Lestranges to make the arrest (and, lo and behold, Barty Crouch Jr. was with
them).  As I read the canon, the perpetrators were not caught red-handed, as
the public would not have had time to clamor for the DMLE to catch those
responsible.  And he lost his eye because he held his ground and succeeded
in bringing them in, in spite of being attacked by Bella's nine-inch nails
(ok, that last bit isn't really canon, but it's how I imagine it).

Debbie
wondering why, if Mad-Eye has important information, why we haven't learned
it already


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