Mad-Eye Moody - Winners & Losers

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 190634



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Valy Brabon <valy1x2 at ...> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
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> It seems there's one of my favorite character who's not very often mentioned in this ML: Moody.
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> There's a few things I wonder about him like, he seems to have quite a hatred for DEs and dark magic, apparently more than any other character in the series. Could it be related to his past? Maybe he lost someone he loved (family? Lover?) because of them.
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> Also, I shall raise some squick, but I ship him with Tonks. I've always wondered if his feelings for her were more than friendship...
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> C'mon! Let's speculate!
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> Valy.
> 


Steve:

Could his hatred of the Dark Art be related to his past. Most certainly. As to who he lost, I think one of the people he lost was himself. He dedicated his entire life to being a Auror and to being the best their is. He tackled the tough jobs that other had given up on. I suspect he spend so much time away from home, that he really didn't have much of a home or time for relationships on any level. 

Then there is the fact that his body is scared and broken from his job as an Auror and his effort to bring the Dark Arts to justice. 

I see Moody as a very sympathetic character, even more so as imagine the course of his life, and how ever greater expansion of his role as a Auror, contracted his chances for any kind of quality personal life. I imagine is was a somewhat lonely life. As his body became more scared and broken, and as he became more jaded and paranoid, the possibilities for true friendships and deeper personal relationships became smaller and smaller, and as a result, he became more isolated and through himself farther and farther into his work, which in turn only made him more isolated. 

As to Tonk, I think Moody saw what all old people see in young people - all the things that can be and all the things that never could. In her he sees all the hopes and dreams for his own life that are now lost forever. 

I do believe that Moody might have had some infatuation for Tonks, but I also think he knew that part of his life had died long ago. By the time he met Tonks, the darkness of humanity that he had seen and the ever pressing weight of paranoia kept him from getting too close to anyone. 

Though a somewhat minor character, I imagine a dark, and both physically and emotional painful past for Moody. One in which he sacrificed all his own happiness in pursuit of bringing the Dark Arts to justice. 

As heroic as it is, it is, none the less, a very tragic story. 

But then, that's just my opinion.

Steve/bboyminn