Re-reading the GoF, I just found out that Mood's eye allows him to see through invisibility cloaks. And at the Yule Ball, he could see the socks that Harry was wearing under his pants.
Someone needs to investigate his eye cause that's quite sus.
Always licking them lips
yeah what the hell was up with that lmao
That was something that David Tennant came up with when playing the role.
Well the only thing I liked about that was that it was a distinctive habit Crouch Junior had, and so when he interacted with his dad and did it, I liked the scene where Crouch looks at him weird then leaves. If you haven't read the books before watching, that 'sa cool detail to notice after the first watch
My guess is that CJr did it because he looked up to Voldemort. (That's a weird statement) Unfortunately, because this aspect of his personality is absent from the films, we can only speculate as to the in-universe reason for this tic.
If I recall correctly in the films he switches sides of his "tic" or little weird lip licking between the flash back scene of the trial and later on in the film. Not a huge deal, just noticed it randomly after hearing that he added it.
It actually wasn't. I heard that the director for some reason said somewhere in the commentary or wherever that it was the actor's choice, but I personally (at a con) heard Tennant say it was in the script, and I also watched a video from another convention where he was again asked about it and was surprised anyone thought it was his decision. Idk why the director supposedly said it, he clearly built it into the story as a major tell about Barty in both of his forms, so there's no way he took some then small time actor's choice and changed the narrative around it. Unless he was flying by the seat of his pants the whole time he was filming...
Now that you mention it, the trait being Tennant's idea doesn't make as much sense.
I read somewhere that this is sign of mental illness. Heath Ledger did this too as a Joker.
The single worst part of any HP movie and in an already really bad movie, by far the worst thing. I hate it so much.
That was in the movies where he licks his lips
Crouch Jr only had eyes for his crush... Voldy lord 🩷😍
I think he was too obsessed with Voldy to bother about other things. Like how Voldy is too obsessed with power and immortality than anything else.
mad eye moody cancelled
He was, in a way
Too soon
It's been 17 years though (damn we're getting old..)
One of the girls (Lavender?) seems to realize this because she says his eye is creepy and "shouldn't be allowed."
I think it was Parvati.
I doubt Moody was interested in what he was seeing. If literally everyone was naked all the time, it would pretty quickly stop being sexual.
The real question is does it stop at the skin? Is Mad-Eye able to see people walking around like a Bodies exhibit?
I bet it can see through it all, Moody is absolutely the sort of person who'd check under the skin to make sure you don't have a weapon sewn into you.
"Molly, you better get that mole checked out. I don't like what's growing under it."
I’m wondering if he can be a doctor and just see what’s wrong with the body
If his eye can see through the Hallowed Cloak of Invisibility, I see no reason why it would be limited by mere flesh.
Mad Eye seems like the kind of guy who might concern himself with someone hiding a wand underneath their skin so that they could smuggle it somewhere and rip it out later.
Moody, no. But Barty Crouch Jnr was still young and had just spent a long time cooped up.
I’m also one of the hippies who believe nudity isn’t inherently sexual
While he only got his magical eye after the formal end of the First Wizarding War, I can't help but think that Moody would be able to see naked corpses with all sorts of horrific injuries across them.
But on the other hand, does he also see Dumbledore, Hagrid, Snape naked?
Oh, absolutely. I hear he regularly goes to see Hagrid just to see his massive hog
Now I get why he went mad
He just wanted to bury a bone in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch
My guy was mad even before the eye, it's the whole reason he get it.
No wonder why snape tried to avoid him
Now, where oh where did I leave my eye bleach. I need to be able to unsee that.
Random magical thing in the Harry Potter books that presents massive problems and was clearly just thrown in with zero thought about any larger impact it may have
Yeah that’s like 95% of the world building in the series. Welcome to re-reading children’s books as an adult
So, teachers can bring into school a magical accessory eye that can see students naked, but confiscated items like broomsticks and playing cards.
to be fair, teachers usually are allowed to do things that students aren't. That's kind of just school
Typical Hogwarts!
Dumbledore's doing out of necessity. In his eyes he had hired a crazy guy that could help him catch whoever was helping Voldemort, protect Harry and keep a watch on ex death eater Karkaroff. His harsh decisions were to protect Harry but it backfire and Voldemort outsmarted him.
There are several comments speaking to the integrity of Alastor vs that of Barty. And also that one might sexualize what they see and another might not.
That's not the point. A privacy violation is a privacy violation if there is no direct or implied consent. If the NSA has your nudes, you aren't particularly interested in verifying the integrity of the people who can access them. You don't want people seeing that without your permission, PERIOD.
With democratic governments there is at least some expectation that bodily privacy violation will not be en masse and will not be in secret -- it's not like some random camera on the street can scan your insides and check if that piece of metal behind your T shirt is a pacemaker, an underwire or a dagger.
TSA can 100% see your junk tho
That's the point. TSA can see your junk when you step in front of the scanner and I am assuming they can ask you to disrobe as well. This is a well known, well publicised policy.
It doesn't mean that a TSA agent can covertly get a scan of the pretty girl at the bar without her knowledge or consent.
That magical eye is a privacy breach without institutional control, supervision or record keeping.
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The real question is why does the Ministry allows it.
Because they are too busy regulating the thicknesses of imported cauldrons.
True that, if only batfans accepted that lol.
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😜 <—Moody
We’ll what people are forgetting is the eye was given to Umbridge as a reward, so emm yeah I’ll just leave the rest to your imagination to what she go up to in her office
What's up with that eye anyway? Why do Harry and others need glasses, but Moody could get a fake eye that sees through doors and the back of his own head?
Lol, so true. “Well Harry, you’ve got 2 options. You can wear glasses, or we can remove your eyes and replace them with a couple of these super freaky bug eyes that can see everything. And I mean EVERYTHING!!
I would like to see Lavander's Uranus 😞
"hey lavender, can i see uranus too?"
And he did!
I'm sorry to say that as someone who has pronounced the planet as "yoo-RA-nus" since childhood, I have never found this joke funny. I knew what Rowling was going for, but this is one moment where my sense of humor is incompatible.
I always loved that joke. Actually I'm french so instead of translating the joke word for word (it wouldn't make sense) or just skipping it, the translator did something very clever. Ron instead asks if he can see Lavender's moon. Because seeing someone's moon in french means you can see their ass crack
One of the other translations used the phrase "heavenly body."
Sounds more like a compliment than a joke haha
Are you American?
I’m Australian and we typically go by English spelling and pronunciation (see Aluminium).
It’s always been “ur-AY-nus” to me (hence the joke) and only ever heard “yoo-RA-nus” on old American space documentaries.
I am indeed American, and while I had heard of the joke pronunciation since childhood, I just naturally leaned towards the one I still use today. It helps that I had no idea that such jokes existed until I saw CGP Grey's video on the planet, and even then, I didn't know what "anus" meant.
Doesn't make it better
It’s a childish joke made by a child in a children’s novel. 13 year old me thought it was hilarious during my first read through.
An Uranus of lavander??? Don't want to alarm you, but they're not really supposed to smell like that...
Girls don't poop
A fellow gets gender affirmation in the weirdest places
Have read a fanfic that had the ministry arrest moody because of it...take his wooden leg and fake eye and toss him into azkaban for looking at underage girls under their clothes
He was checking out dat azzkaban
Just cuz he can, doesn't mean he does.
He must be able to choose what he sees through though, otherwise that could become really inconvenient. If he's unable to control it, he'd be able to see through tables, chairs, doors etc all the time, which would make navigating the world really difficult.
Also, if it's beyond his control, where does the seeing through things stop? Does he see through clothes and skin and muscle and bone too?
There's way more sus. stuff in HP. Like the date rape potion sold in joke shops and the mind control spell that could make someone a sex slave.
He can and it doesn't matter in the slightest as he is not doing it for perverted reasons, just out of paranoia. He is just practical with trust issues. Barty is a hound of an evil master and it's taking advantage for helping his master back to power. I doubt either of them are interested in such things.
It was just barty Jr so it wasn't moody
This is oftopic but it reminds me of the mage Frieren and her aprentice Fern from the Anime "Frieren Byond Journeys End". Relatively early in the series they learn a spell that allows them to see through clothes.
So can Superman, so what
just because you can do a thing does NOT mean you should do a thing
The Police wish to question you
lol I meant as “who cares”, moody and Clark are good guys and not creeps and use their abilities to fight crime not to perv on people:)
fictional powers meets real world laws would still see both before a tribunal
You’re fun:))
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real Moody probably wasn't a creep, Crouch Jr tho...