It’s hard to hold Harry to a higher standard than the many adults who circumvented him in his fourth year at Hogwarts in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, he’s the supporter. Perhaps Dumbledore should have noticed that the friend he hired to learn Defense Against the Dark Arts was not really the friend he claimed to be.

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Anyway, Harry too wasted what seemed to be a lot of additional hour with Professor Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody than many of his classmates and probably a lot of the module. Harry Potter believes Malfoy of nefarious work if the son sneezes, but he seems to have missed a few cases key evidences when it came to the false Professor Moody.

Updated on December 25 th, 2021 by Melody MacReady: It is well established that Harry Potter is far from an expert on things in the Wizarding World, considering he’s lived with muggles his whole life and spends his time in the muggle macrocosm outside of school. However, Harry Potter proves to be one of the worst investigators when it came to Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody being Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise.

The character has so many indications and tells that point to him not being who he says that even Harry Potter should have noticed. Harry Potter might have been distracted by the Triwizard Tournament but there were plenty of unsubtle indicates both in the book and film that any love could pick up on.

The only clue Harry even remotely sharpens in on is after he’s already been portkeyed away and met up with a now resurrected Lord Voldemort. Only now, when he recognise something was wrong all along does he even conjure his head and consider that maybe there’s something a little off about Moody.

Still, he’s not able to situated the bits together, that Moody isn’t truly Moody until that polyjuice concoction wears off. He should have caught on a bit sooner.

When Harry trips Dumbledore’s office and is left alone with Fawkes, one of the cutest supernatural people, he inadvertently stumbles onto Dumbledore’s Pensieve and then inadvertently stumbles into Dumbledore’s recognitions. The cache we see in the film stars both the real Mad-Eye Moody and Barty Crouch Jr.

Despite this introduction to the real Alastor Moody, and the real Barty Crouch Jr. Harry doesn’t once placed any segments together or ask any meaningful questions. Instead, he’s more concerned about his strange dreams.

One of the most difficult giveaways that Moody was not who he seemed to be was when Barty Crouch Sr. and Moody had a brief conversation after the second task. Not merely does Moody randomly chastize Barty Crouch Sr. for apparently no reason but he flicks his tongue like a snake.

Barty Crouch Sr. immediately recognizes this tic and glances terrified by it before walking away. Also, the very next time Harry Potter views Barty Crouch Sr ., he happens to be dead. Considering that Alastor Moody is already off-putting by that moment, Harry should have at least suspected foul play from the Auror.

So, after their strange interaction, Barty Crouch Sr. is were dead in the Forbidden Forest in the very next scene. Obviously, there is no direct indication pointing towards Moody but Harry should have at least suspected Moody to have been involved after participating Crouch react to Moody in such a strange way.

In the book version of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Moody accidentally shows up after Barty Crouch Sr. is were dead. No one send for Moody, simply Dumbledore. How did he simply happen to be in the right place at the right time? Did he overhear the information?

Moody proposals Harry an horrific parcel of cure when it comes to the different tasks in the Triwizard Tournament. This would not be seriously questionable if Harry were the only Hogwarts champion but Cedric Diggory is also involved. Why was Moody so biased to help Harry?

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Not formerly does Moody try to help Cedric, the other representative of Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament. Though Harry probably recognized the help, he should have at least questioned why Moody was so involved with his side of the tournament.

The real Alastor Moody was known for booze from a hip flask to avoid being poisoned by his foes but the Moody that Harry interacts with is a bit haunted with his booze and guzzles between banquets and in corridors.

It’s a sort of disturbing habit and again, Harry just goes with it after affirming it only once. The vessel is something Harry notices at least, although he never introduces it together with the other clues smothering him to be worried at all about what it might mean.

After the second task, where Harry use gillyweed to breathe underwater, Snape corners Harry and alleges him of stealing from his personal concoctions collects. Even if he didn’t steal the gillyweed Snape is also missing boomslang skin and lacewing flies.

Why are those ingredients important? Snape being an expert teacher in concoctions explains that they conclude the polyjuice brew and he’s convinced that Harry and friends are brewing some. If Harry had considered the flask behavior perhaps he would have been able to question Moody’s identity when it still would have done some good.

Even by his fourth year, Harry Potter should have realized that something is wrong with the Defense Against The Dark Arts class. Every time, the prof of this class has been either a villain or afflicted with something to compile them unable to stay.

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Professor Moody was yet another in a long line of rascals and antagonists to school the class including Professor Quirinus Quirrell, Gilderoy Lockhart, and even Remus Lupin in his werewolf formation. As proven, Harry is far from a detective but he should have at least suspected the strangest Defense Against The Dark Arts professor yet of being a culprit.

It may be film canon simply but that tongue movie is particularly specific and apparent both when Harry learns Barty Crouch Jr. in Dumbledore’s Pensieve and when Moody speaks with Harry and Barty Crouch Sr. in the Forbidden Forest. Once again Harry doesn’t introduced the parts together.

The biggest indicate should have been after Harry ensure Barty Crouch Jr. flaunt the same tic after he was exposed in Dumbledore’s memory. Moody had done the same thing several times by that quality and Harry Potter doesn’t even begin to feel any suspicion.

Granted, a practical coming in teach students about the worst swears in idea is not a bad one. However, Alastor Moody decides to teach the students by traumatizing them with disturbing examples of what the curses can do, including showcasing to Neville Longbottom the same curse used on his parents.

He may have use the curses on a spider but it was clear that this fake Moody was getting too much joy and exhilaration out of showing these fourth-year students these afflictions. While it is said that Moody is eccentric hence his nickname, even Harry should have been a little suspicious.

There are various differences between the Goblet Of Fire bible and movie explanations. The Marauder’s Map was able to identify Peter Pettigrew even when he was in his animagus form, it shouldn’t have been a problem to identify someone disguised by polyjuice potion.

In the Goblet Of Fire notebook, Moody wisely acquires the map from Harry when he realises its capabilities, but Harry never “wouldve asked for” it back. He never considers that the map evidenced someone named Barty Crouch in Snape’s potion places. As the public was informed in Prisoner of Azkaban, that the map never lies. Harry should have remembered that.

Harry was in shock , no doubt about it when he returned to school clutching the body of Cedric Diggory but, as Voldemort had literally merely returned, he probably should have clutched at the hem of Dumbledore’s drapes and never let go.

Instead, Moody inexplicably leader Harry away from Dumbledore, and all other eyes, and get him to his own private bureau. This is, of course, the action that lastly clues Dumbledore into the false Moody in their midst, but it still wasn’t enough for Harry.

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