One of the most powerful wizards of modern age, Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody has very interesting and impressive character. He is known with his interest into Dark Arts. He was one of the leading characters of both first and second Wizarding Wars. He lost his one eye, one leg and a part of his nose while he was fighting against enemies with using dark arts. Those sacrifices which Moody made, bestowed great fame to him.
Moody is also known with his dark wizard hunts and successfully imprisonments of captured dark wizards at Azkaban.
Life
Alastor Moody comes from a pure blood wizard family. He was born before 1961. He is known with his special magical abilities that he developed at young ages because of his pure blood and wizarding family.
Moody family is time-honoured Auror family. The family’s fame continues with Alastor Moody too.
Career
Alastor Moody was hired by Albus Dumbledore to teach Defence Against Dark Arts at Hogwarts and he did some lessons. But, after a while, show up the real Alastor Moody was kidnapped by Barty Crouch Jr. After that show up, Dumbledore and other professors saved the real Moody. So that, Alastor Moody joined the second Order of Phoenix, and had a part in critical roles in many wars and missions.
Alastor Moody also worked for Ministry of Magic as Auror.
Wars and Battles
Moody was working as an Auror in first Wizarding Wars. He fought against Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort as a member of Order of Phoenix.
In his Auror career, he caught many dark wizards and put them in Azkaban. He is known with his heroic acts in wars. He can easily risk his life to save others.
He died in second Wizarding Wars while he was fighting against Death Eaters with his team to protect Harry Potter.
Special Abilities
- Special Magic Abilities: Alastor Moody is one of the most powerful talents of the modern wizarding world. In his career as Auror, he proved his talents many times. He is very talented almost every area of magic.
- Auror Abilities: Moody known as most powerful Auror ever born. His ability of chase and catch dark wizards are extraordinarily powerful.
- Dark Magic: Alastor Moody is very powerful at using black magic. He used black magic spells against his opponents many times. Those abilities of Moody scares people as much as they respect to Moody.
- Illusion Spells: Moody is also very talented with illusion spells. He made invisible himself and Harry Potter with using Disillusionment spell, without using Cloak of Invisibility.
Sources
- His Auror Career (Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix, Chapter 29)
- Alastor Moody’s Story (Pottermore)