Harry Potter: 10 Things Only Book Fans Know About Alastor Moody

Mad-Eye Moody became a fan favorite in the Harry Potter universe. However, fans of only the movies missed these things that were only in the books.

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Harry Potter has several role models in his life throughout the books and movies. Sirius Black is an inspirational godfather, despite being hot-headed and reckless at times. Remus Lupin is a good presence, acting with the Boy Who Lived’s best interests at heart during his spell as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and afterward. And Alastor Moody, despite spending his year as a teacher imprisoned in his own trunk, is another good ally.

The movies did a good job of bringing the character to the big screen, with Brendan Gleeson nailing the role. However, not every little detail from the source material was shown to fans. There are things that were only known to those who read the books.

10 He Destroyed A Birthday Gift

In the Goblet of Fire book, it’s revealed that Alastor is a great and powerful wizard responsible for the majority of Azkaban convicts ending up there. But years of tackling dark wizards has addled his mind and, when Mr. Weasley is sent to investigate a disturbance at the auror’s house, he tells his children of Mad-Eye’s paranoia.

So impacted his mind is by years of fighting against the wizarding world’s worst wizards and witches that he actually once destroyed a birthday gift, believing it to be a Basilisk egg. It was merely a carriage clock, but this would have been pretty amusing to see.

9 He Wasn’t Kidnapped Easily

On the subject of that disturbance at Moody’s house, it’s time to talk about his kidnapping. In the movie, there’s never any mention of the night where Barty Crouch Jr. came to his house and took him hostage so he could pose as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the year. Yet it’s a different story in the book.

Moody didn’t go down without a fight and the incident even attracts calls from nearby muggles. This is why Mr. Weasley is dispatched to the address – to basically put a cover-up in motion. However, everybody on the scene deduces that Alastor was merely being paranoid again, meaning they’re powerless to prevent the dark and sinister events that then unfold.

8 He Was Also Controlled Via The Imperius Curse

If you’re solely a fan of the Potter movies, you can be forgiven for thinking that Moody should have done more to get himself out of his own trunk. But the famous auror isn’t just stored there so Barty Crouch Jr. can continue making polyjuice potion.

He’s also there so that Crouch Jr. can learn all about Moody, his characteristics, his actions, and his beliefs in order to play him to perfection. Moody was placed under the Imperius Curse and, on multiple occasions, comes close to breaking free. However, his efforts are all in vain and he’s only freed when Crouch Jr. forgets to take the potion following Lord Voldemort’s return to power.

7 He Mentored Nymphadora Tonks

In the Order of the Phoenix book and movie, Harry meets Nymphadora Tonks for the very first time. He immediately takes to the auror, whose positive mood and relaxed persona makes her a nice breath of fresh air when compared to other individuals in her profession. And, when they get talking about Tonks’ backstory, she reveals that Alastor was her mentor.

Moody helped Tonks rise up the ranks to become an auror, making her one of the very best in the business. Her good training sees her become a member of the Order of the Phoenix, who she fights for prior to her death in The Deathly Hallows.

6 His Eye Was Never The Same

Moody is asked to help out when it comes to tidying up 12 Grimmauld Place, with Sirius Black’s old family home becoming the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix following Lord Voldemort’s rise to power. One example of this is when Mrs. Weasley, afraid there might be a Boggart in an old drawer, asks Alastor to use his eye to take a look.

Amusingly, Moody then has difficulty. He explains how the eye was never the same after Barty Crouch Jr. wore it for a year and that it would often get stuck, causing him some discomfort as a result. This remains the case until his death, which takes place in the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

5 He Thought Dumbledore Made Ron A Prefect For Secret Reasons

Harry is furious in the fifth book when, despite being the one to navigate his way through the Triwizard Tournament and take on Lord Voldemort the previous school year, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are both made prefects. This puts his nose severely out of joint and he struggles to join in the celebrations hosted by Mrs. Weasley in the aftermath.

Moody, however, has an amusingly unique take on the matter. He insists Albus Dumbledore must consider Ron particularly good at repelling spells and curses, hence why he’s given him a role in authority. Nobody in the room knows how to react to this, Ron included.

4 He Visited Mr. Weasley In Hospital

In the Order of the Phoenix movie, fans see Mr. Weasley attacked by Nagini while guarding the Department of Mysteries. Then, shortly afterward, they see him recovering at 12 Grimmauld Place with his whole family around him on Christmas Day, with the Ministry of Magic employee in his element.

What the blockbuster doesn’t show, though, is people visiting Mr. Weasley at St Mungo’s Hospital. Moody joins Harry, Ron, Hermione, and other members of the Weasley family in going up to London, wearing a bowler hat in public to mask his eye. He’s overheard talking about Harry at the hospital, which only increases the feelings of anxiety and fear within the Boy Who Lived.

3 He Attended Dumbledore’s Funeral

One of the biggest cut scenes from the Half-Blood Prince movie is Albus Dumbledore’s funeral. It was left out of the movie because Warner Bros didn’t want to make the movie too dark, instead trying to make it as amusing as possible. But wefansstill can’t help but feel it should have been included given how emotional it is during the source material.

Moody is among the mourners there to pay their last respect to the Hogwarts icon. There’s no mention of him crying but the odd part in us would love to see whether his magical eye is actually capable of producing tears.

2 He Jinxed 12 Grimmauld Place

In the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 movie, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are ambushed when they return to 12 Grimmauld Place. An ashy, smoking version of Dumbledore’s corpse comes towards them and only dusts up when they insist they weren’t responsible for his death. But what the film doesn’t explain was that it was Moody behind the trap’s creation.

Moody lays out several traps throughout Grimmauld Place just in case Severus Snape, Voldemort, or any other Death Eaters decide to come calling. Fortunately, none of them ever spring into life because they don’t visit. But it seems the auror was on the ball making plans just in case they’re needed.

1 There Was No Funeral

Also in the first Deathly Hallows movie, Moody’s death takes place. Soon afterward, Harry comes across the auror’s famous eye in the door of Dolores Umbridge’s office, with the loathsome former Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher using it to ensure her staff follows her instructions – like publishing anti-muggle propaganda.

What’s not mentioned, though, is that no funeral for Moody ever takes place. Because the Death Eaters got to his body first, the good guys are never able to get it back. Harry takes Moody’s eye and later buries it, which is the closest thing to a send-off he’s ever going to get.

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