GoF Ch 30 post DH look/ Moody

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 182187

> Potioncat:
> I'm confused. Are you saying the court was wrong to make the deal, 
or 
> that Moody was wrong to suggest the court shouldn't honor the deal? 
> Or both?

Alla:

I was saying that Moody was wrong to suggest the court shouldn't 
honor the deal definitely. But actually when I first encountered the 
whole concept of making a deal with somebody to testify about bigger 
fish, it made me very very uncomfortable and still does.

Part of the reason why I would never do criminal law, ever. I mean, 
what kind of justice is that that lets go of the person who did 
lesser crime if only to catch the person who committed larger crime.

I mean, I guess I understand if person with whom the deal is made did 
something REALLY trivial, something really incomparable to what other 
person did, but if both of them say committed murder, only another 
person committed several, why the heck criminal justice system should 
not work harder and catch the criminal without letting other criminal 
go free. My opinion of course only. Eh back to Potterverse now.


 
> >Alla: 
> > So, yeah, back to Moody. Um, wrong and unethical behavior?
> 
> Potioncat:
> I'd like to go back and look for all the real!Moody scenes to find 
> out what he was like. It's hard to always remember that the Moody 
we 
> know best was really Barty.


Alla:

I wonder something now. Maybe JKR did it deliberately, to make sure 
that readers do not see contrasts between two Moodys, but then it 
would be portraying not what real Moody really was.


Potioncat: 
> But this makes me think that Barty's ferret trick wasn't so out of 
> place, nor the DE-who-walks-free ranting. It could explain why 
Snape 
> would feel very nervous around Moody. (But geeze---compared to 
Tom?) 

Alla:

Right, apparently it was not out of character. I wonder though, I was 
trying to locate a post of earlier discussion of this moments, which 
as I vaguely remember discussed Moody's behaviour as result of 
extreme stress he endured in the months preceeding this trial. Losing 
body parts, catching people, aurors dying, etc, but still... I guess 
it can be excuse, but not what I would like to hear from his mouth.

Potioncat:
> By the sane token, the real Moody thinks there's something strange 
> about Harry. He and Snape could drink to that.
> <SNIP>

Alla:

LOLOLOL. Male bonding. Did somebody ever wrote Moody/ Snape slash 
story by the way? Now must go look, am intrigued, never did search on 
them.

Pippin:
The real Moody is a high-functioning nutcase, just like Tom. It's why
Barty Jr could play his part so successfully. But Snape is always
"on", always in character. At Hogwarts, after all, it is never safe to
assume that you are not observed. He shows his nervousness and
protests too much that he is trusted because that is how a DE who
would join the Dark Side again if it had a leader would act.

Alla:

I am not rereading Barty's final speeches deliberately right now, so 
is there any indication that he was learning how to play Moody, or 
did it by instinct and maybe as you seem to suggest because their 
characters are similar?

Oh, and are you suggesting that Snape being afraid of Moody was 
completely an act?

Alla