Chapter 430 Alastor Moody

This is a very ordinary house. The layout and decoration of the house are not much different from those of ordinary Muggles. There are just many hazy mirrors in the room, as well as glowing tops, which are looking glasses used by wizards.

The looking glass is a magical prop in the wizarding world that functions like a detector and can detect danger. When the looking glass makes a sound, or the black shadow in the mirror can be seen clearly, you have to be careful, because someone has evil intentions towards you.

When Voldemort came to power, looking glasses were almost a must-have in every household, but in the post-Voldemort era, only some Aurors still have them in their homes.

But with so many on display, Moody may be the only one.

Seeing so many looking glasses placed in Moody's house, Ada thought how afraid he was of being attacked! You know, this is Alastor Moody's house, but you don't know that this is Moody's Looking Glass store!

The real Dumbledore and Ada stood in the corner of the room, while the memory Dumbledore sat on the sofa and extended an invitation to Moody.

"Alastor, I need your help." Dumbledore said directly, getting straight to the point. He and Moody had known each other for many years and there was no need for all the fluff.

Moody's voice was rough. He didn't know whether it was like this or he had been injured. He responded: "I am no longer a useless old man, and I am still a bad old man who is suspicious all day long. Albus, I can still help. What are you doing...I can’t even help myself.”

These words are a bit lonely. Heroes grow old and beauties grow old. This is the helplessness of life. Moody is now a late hero. He was once an honorable Auror, but now no one cares about him, and he is regarded as a madman.

In Ada's view, Moody's paranoia was a bit like PTSD, just like those veterans who had participated in the war. After returning to normal society, he could not let his psychology return to normal.

Anxiety, tension, and excessive pressure have led to his paranoia, always feeling that someone is trying to harm him.

"Alastor, this meeting makes me feel that you are a bit strange." Dumbledore said in memory, "You were not like this before. What made you become like this?"

Moody muttered something, but no one heard what he said.

He paused and said: "Maybe you are right. I have indeed changed and become something I hate. I hate the boring and same life, I hate being watched, and I also hate myself in retirement."

"But what can I do!" Moody continued, "The dark wizard I worked so hard to capture was released by the Ministry of Magic just because he despicably betrayed several of his associates. What does this mean? What are these wounds on my body? What are those people who died because of him?"

Ada in the corner of the room looked up at Dumbledore in confusion. Dumbledore beside her nodded and gave her confirmation. It seemed that the dark wizard Moody was talking about was Karkaroff.

Perhaps, there is more than one Karkaroff. Make the hero bleed and shed tears, the Ministry of Magic really has you.

However, Ada didn't have the position to say this. After all, strictly speaking, her grandmother's situation was similar to Karkaroff's. Both men should have been imprisoned for rehabilitation, but both were released by the authorities for other reasons.

Dumbledore in his memory said: "Alastor, Hogwarts will hold the Triwizard Tournament after the school term starts. At that time, as the principal of Durmstrang, Igor Karkaroff will definitely come to Hogwarts." Come Gwartz. I need you to help me spy on him."

"Karkarov? He's a coward and can't make waves. No matter how brave you are, he won't dare." Moody said with great certainty, "It took me six months to catch him. This kid Those who have been hiding from me do not dare to meet me."

Moody's strength can be seen from his record of filling half of the Azkaban cells. There is no doubt about his combat power and he must belong to the top echelon.

Karkaroff is such a coward. If he dares to go against Moody, he will be evil.

Dumbledore was silent in his memory. He looked out the window. The sun was setting and the whole world seemed to have darkened.

"Wait, don't you think..." Moody hesitated, his rough fingers pulling at his poor hair, looking a little funny.

He continued: "You don't think Karkaroff is just a piece of cheese in the open to lure our attention. And there are other people behind everything, right?"

Dumbledore nodded, confirming Moody's guess.

"You're crazy, Albus, you're crazy!" Moody said with an exaggerated expression. "Those officials at the Ministry of Magic will think you are crazy! Just like me!"

"Alastor, you and I, we are not crazy," Dumbledore said. "Only we are still awake and not obsessed with the superficial peace. Only we know that he will come back."

When everyone is drunk, I am sober. Often at such times, the sober people are the most ridiculous. Because of their thoroughness, those who look at the world drunkenly will regard them as lunatics, laugh at them, and exclude them.

Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others because they can’t see through it.

Ada didn't know why Moody left the Ministry of Magic in the first place. Maybe he retired because of his success, maybe he was ostracized, or he was forced to go to the top. But judging from the conversation between the two in his memory, Moody clearly knew that Voldemort was only temporarily defeated.

"What do you need me to do? Take over that unfortunate position?" Moody pondered for a while and said, "You need someone to monitor Karkaroff or the movements of the people behind the scenes, and you also need someone to protect Harry Potter. ,Is it right?"

In his memory, Dumbledore withdrew his gaze from the window and said, "Yes, I need your experience. Your experience will be our wealth, and Harry also needs to learn more. He has some time." That's too late."

Moody suddenly burst out laughing, wildly, as if he had heard something interesting. He wiped away the tears of laughter from his eyes and said, "It turns out that you also had something unexpected, or that you planned to leave everything to Harry Potter."

"Of course I have things I can't calculate. If everything goes as I wish, there will be less misfortune in this world." Dumbledore said, "Alastor, I thought I could wait until Harry grew up. More mature. But, everything is always so unpredictable."

Moody fell silent again. He moved his nose, as if the aroma of food was coming from next door. Moody said: "Albus, it seems that I really need to exercise my old bones."

The memory disappeared like smoke again, and the screen turned black again. Ada felt Dumbledore holding her arm beside her, and then she returned to the principal's office.

The light that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes made Ada cover her eyes. At this moment, the principals in the frame fell into "sleep" again.

Dumbledore sat on the steps of his office, his long white beard almost hanging to the ground. Ada picked up the glass of juice that was no longer cool and sat on the steps.

These two memories brought great confusion to Ada. She felt as if she had touched the truth, but also as if she had not at all. Two seemingly unrelated memories, is there any connection between them?

"Professor, don't you think Professor Moody is a little strange?" Ada asked doubtfully. She always felt that Moody was a little strange, but she couldn't pinpoint the reason.

After hearing this, Dumbledore glanced at Ada with satisfaction and said, "This is your first time coming into contact with Alastor. You can feel that he is a little strange, which is already an amazing discovery."

"Do you think he is strange too?" Ada asked again.

"No, Alastor is not strange at all." Dumbledore said, "His performance is very consistent with... how can I put it... yes, very consistent with his crazy personality."

Ada was a little confused by the old man in front of her. Since Dumbledore didn't think Moody was strange, why did he want to review his memories with Moody?

Dumbledore changed the topic and continued: "It is normal for a crazy person to do weird things, but our Professor Moody seems to be too normal."