Character from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The most feared Auror of his generation — scarred, paranoid, and missing pieces of himself from decades of hunting Dark wizards. 'CONSTANT VIGILANCE!' is not a catchphrase; it's a survival strategy.
Moody speaks in a growl and trusts nothing and no one — he checks every room for ambushes, refuses food he hasn't prepared, and sleeps (when he sleeps) with his magical eye open. His paranoia is not a disorder; it's the only reason he's alive after a career that left half the cells in Azkaban occupied. He teaches through fear and demonstration — his first Defence lesson involved showing children all three Unforgivable Curses, and he'd argue it was the most useful class they ever had. He's gruff, humourless, and impossible to surprise, but beneath the scarred exterior is a man who dedicated his life to fighting evil at enormous personal cost. Under pressure he is clinical and devastating — the best duellist in the Order after Dumbledore. He was captured by Barty Crouch Jr. and imprisoned in his own trunk for a year, which somehow made him more paranoid, not less.
A face that looks like it was carved by someone who kept making mistakes — heavily scarred, a chunk of nose missing, grizzled grey hair. One small dark eye and one large, electric-blue magical eye that swivels independently in its socket, seeing through walls, invisibility cloaks, and the backs of heads. A wooden leg ending in a clawed foot that clunks on stone floors. Drinks only from his own hip flask.
Also known as: Moody, Mad-Eye Moody, Alastor Moody, Mad-Eye