Moody and the clues was Re: Duane: Harry was Right?

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No: HPFGUIDX 189736

Carol:
 Harry should have seen through Crouch-Moody (a good person does not turn students, even those they dislike, into ferrets and bounce them on the pavement and only a person with an ulterior motive would help a student cheat in a tournament), but the other judgments, right or wrong, are understandable and merely show that he's human. What teenager doesn't judge his teachers in more or less the same way?

Pippin:
Hagrid helped Harry cheat in the tournament too...is he supposed to have an ulterior motive?  

I think the ferret bounce is one of those clues that point to the right person for the wrong reason. It's only something a good person wouldn't do if your definition of a good person is someone who couldn't do anything seriously wrong.  That *is* pretty much Harry's definition of a good person at this point in the saga. Eventually he'll realize that good people, people he loves and respects and wouldn't hesitate to trust, have flaws and may do serious harm. It's part of the burden of an adult wizard to know that goodness is never unalloyed and no one's judgements can be accepted uncritically.

That being the case, I think Crouch-Moody was in character and playing his part to the hilt in this instance. He is doing a bad thing, but IMO, it's a bad thing that the real Moody might've done. Judging from McGonagall's reaction, he probably did do similar things in the past. She doesn't say that this is something she wouldn't have expected from him. Instead she demands to know whether Dumbledore didn't tell him this sort of thing wasn't allowed. 

That implies that it is allowed elsewhere.

Of course it would not be realistic if Crouch's impersonation was perfect, so there should be something to give him away. But I think it's in The Egg and the Eye. Just as the real Moody would never have taken Harry away from Dumbledore's protection, the real Moody would not have let Harry go back alone at night to Gryffindor Tower unescorted. Only the murderer would have known that Harry was in no danger from him. 

Pippin