Brendan Gleeson: Alastor 'MadEye' Moody
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Professor Moody : Alastor Moody. Ex-Auror, Ministry malcontent, and your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I am here because Dumbledore asked me. End of story, goodbye, the end! Any questions? When it comes to the Dark Arts I believe in a practical approach. But first, which of you can tell me how many Unforgivable Curses there are?
Hermione : Three, sir.
Professor Moody : And they are so named?
Hermione : Because they are unforgivable. The use of any one of them will...
Professor Moody : Earn you a one-way ticket to Azkaban. Correct. The Ministry says you are too young to see what these curses do. I say different! You need to know what you're up against. You need to be prepared...
[as he turns to the blackboard again, Seamus ducks under his desk]
Professor Moody : You need to find another place to put your chewing gum besides the underside of your desk, Mr. Finnegan!
Seamus : [whispering] No way, the old codger can see out of the back of his head!
Professor Moody : [throws a piece of chalk at him] And hear across classrooms!
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Malfoy : Why so tense, Potter? My father and I have a bet, you see. I don't think you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament. He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five!
[laughs]
Harry : [enraged] I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy! He's vile and cruel, and you're just pathetic!
Malfoy : Pathetic?
[draws his wand]
Professor Moody : OH NO, YOU DON'T, SONNY!
[transifgures Malfoy into a ferret]
Professor Moody : I'll teach you to curse someone when their back is turned!
[proceeds to flick the ferret up and down]
Professor Moody : You stinking, cowardly, scummy...
Professor McGonagall : [running up to Professor Moody] Professor Moody!
Professor Moody : Back-shooting...
Professor McGonagall : Wha- What are you doing?
Professor Moody : Teaching.
Professor McGonagall : Is that a- Is that a student?
Professor Moody : Technically, it's a ferret.
[dumps the ferret down Crabbe's trousers]
Gregory Goyle : Stand still! Stand still!
[Attempts to remove the ferret from Crabbe's trousers, only to be bitten. Moody turns and winks at a Harry, who is laughing gleefully. The ferret crawls out of Crabbe's trousers, and McGonagall turns Malfoy back into his normal human self]
Malfoy : [standing up] My father will hear about this!
Professor Moody : Is that a threat?
[Malfoy turns and runs]
Professor McGonagall : Professor Moody...
Professor Moody : IS THAT A THREAT?
Professor McGonagall : Professor...
Professor Moody : I CAN TELL YOU STORIES ABOUT YOUR FATHER THAT'LL CURL EVEN YOUR GREASY HAIR, BOY!
Professor McGonagall : Alastor!
Professor Moody : IT DOESN'T END HERE!
Professor McGonagall : Alastor! We NEVER use transfiguration as a punishment! surely, Dumbledore told you that?
Professor Moody : He might've mentioned it.
Professor McGonagall : Well, you will do well to remember it.
[turns around]
Professor McGonagall : [to a group of students standing nearby] Away!
[as she walks away, Moody sticks his tongue out at her]
Professor Moody : [turns to Harry] You. Come with me.
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Professor Moody : What was it like? What was he like?
Harry : Who?
Professor Moody : The Dark Lord. What was it like to stand in his presence?
Harry : ...I dunno... It was like I'd fallen into one of my dreams. Into one of my nightmares.
Professor Moody : Were there others? In the graveyard, were there others?
Harry : ...I don't think I said anything about a graveyard, Professor.
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Professor Moody : [mocking Hagrid] 'Marvelous creatures, Dragons, aren't they'. Do you think that miserable oaf would've sent you into the woods if I hadn't suggested it? Do you think Cedric Diggory would've told you to open the egg underwater if I hadn't told him first myself? Do you think Neville Longbottom, the witless wonder, could've provided you with Gillyweed if I hadn't given him the book that led him straight to it? HUH?
[points at his head as if to say, "Use your brain"]
Harry : It was you from the beginning! You put my name into the Goblet of Fire! You bewitched Krum!
Professor Moody : [mocking Harry] But... But... But... But...
[normal voice]
Professor Moody : You won because I made it so, Potter! You ended up in that graveyard because it was meant to be so! And now the deed is done! The blood that runs in your veins runs within the Dark Lord! Imagine how he will reward me when he learns that I have once and for all silenced the great Harry Potter!
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Professor Moody : The Goblet of Fire is an exceptionally powerful magical object. Only an exceptionally powerful Confundus charm could have hoodwinked it! Magic way beyond the talents of a fourth year.
Igor Karkaroff : You seem to have given this a fair bit of thought, Mad-Eye!
Professor Moody : It was once my job to think as Dark Wizards do, Karkaroff. Perhaps you remember.
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Professor Moody : Let's have another curse. C'mon, c'mon.
[Neville's hand slowly goes up, and Moody calls on him]
Professor Moody : Longbottom, isn't it? Professor Sprout tells me you have an aptitude for Herbology.
Neville : Th-there's um... the Cruciatus Curse.
Professor Moody : Correct! Correct! Particularly nasty.
[he leads Neville up to his desk and puts the spider down in front of him]
Professor Moody : The torture curse. CRUCIO!
[the spider begins to squeak and writhe in pain. Neville flinches, almost unable to watch as the spider continues to curl itself up in agony]
Hermione : Stop it! Can't you see it's bothering him? STOP IT!
[Moody lifts the curse, and again palms the spider. Neville is left standing at the desk, looking shell-shocked]
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Minerva McGonagall : This can't go on, Albus. First the Dark Mark, now this?
Albus Dumbledore : What do you suggest, Minerva?
Minerva McGonagall : [scoffs] Put an *end* to it! Don't let Potter compete!
Albus Dumbledore : You heard Barty. The rules are clear.
Minerva McGonagall : Well, the devil with Barty and his rules! And since when did you accommodate the Ministry?
Severus Snape : Headmaster, I too find it difficult to believe this mere coincidence. However, if we are to truly discover the meaning of these events, perhaps we should, for the time being, let them unfold.
Minerva McGonagall : What? Do nothing? Offer him up as *bait*? Potter is a *boy*, not a piece of meat!
Albus Dumbledore : I agree. With Severus.
[McGonagall looks downcast]
Albus Dumbledore : Alastor, keep an eye on Harry, will you?
Alastor "Mad Eye" Moody : I can do that.
Albus Dumbledore : Don't let him know, though. He must be anxious enough as it is...
[brings his wand to his temple and pulls out a glowing white thread of memory]
Albus Dumbledore : ... knowing what lies ahead. Then again, we all are.
[drops the memory in a bowl of water; sees the parchment with Harry's name on it]
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Professor Moody : [Moody walks to Hermione's desk and places the spider in front of her] Perhaps you'd like to give us the last curse, Miss Granger?
[tears swimming in her eyes, Hermione shakes her head vigorously]
Professor Moody : No?
[pause]
Professor Moody : AVADA KEDAVRA!
[with a flash of green light, the spider lets out one final squeak, then stops moving. Harry is watching from a desk across]
Professor Moody : The Killing Curse. Only one wizard is known to have survived it. And he's sitting in this room.
[he stands in front of Harry]
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Professor McGonagall : Professor Moody! What are you doing?
Professor Moody : Teaching.
Professor McGonagall : Is that a- is that a student?
Professor Moody : Technically it's a ferret.
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Dumbledore : Do you know who I am? Do you?
Professor Moody : Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore : Are you Alastor Moody?
Professor Moody : ...no.
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Professor Moody : What are you going to do about your dragon?
Harry : Oh... um... well, you know, I just thought I'd...
Professor Moody : Listen to me, Potter. Your pal Diggory? By your age he could turn a whistle into a watch and have it sing you the time. Miss Delacour is as much a fairy princess as I am. As for Krum, his head may be filled with sawdust, but Karkaroff's is not. They'll have a strategy. And you can bet that it will play to Krum's strengths. Come on, Potter, what are you strengths?
Harry : I dunno... I can fly, I mean I'm a fair flyer...
Professor Moody : Better than fair the way I heard it.
Harry : But I'm not allowed a broom.
Professor Moody : You're allowed a wand...
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Malfoy : [after Moody humilates him by turning him into a ferret and bouncing him up and down] My father will hear about this!
Professor Moody : Is that a threat?
[Draco turns and runs]
Professor McGonagall : Professor Moody...
Professor Moody : [yelling after him] I could tell you stories about your father that would curl even your greasy hair, boy!
Professor McGonagall : Alastor!
Professor Moody : It doesn't end here!
Professor McGonagall : Alastor! We never use transfiguration as a punishment. Surely Dumbledore told you that.
Professor Moody : He might've mentioned it.
Professor McGonagall : Well you will do well to remember it.
[turns around]
Professor McGonagall : [to a group of students gathered nearby] Away!
[as she walks away, Moody sticks his tongue out at her]
Professor Moody : [turns to Harry] You, come with me.
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Professor Moody : So, what curse shall we see first? Weasley!
Ron : [scared] Yes?
Professor Moody : Stand!
[Ron does]
Professor Moody : Give us a curse.
Ron : Well... my dad did tell me about one. The Imperius Curse?
Professor Moody : Oh, yeah, your dad would know all about that one. Gave the Ministry a lot of trouble at one time. Perhaps this will show you why.
[opens a jar full of spiders and picks one out]
Professor Moody : Hello, my little beauty! Engorgio.
[the spider grows to a huge size]
Professor Moody : Imperio!
[the spider begins hopping around the room, onto student's clothes, faces, etc. Everyone starts laughing]
Professor Moody : Don't worry, she's completely harmless! If she bites... she's lethal!
[laughs with everyone]
Professor Moody : Talented, isn't she? What shall I have her do next? Jump out the window?
[the spider jumps toward the window, which is closed, and slams into the glass. Everyone stops laughing at once]
Professor Moody : Drown herself?
[the spider jumps to a pail of water and poises on the rim, ready to dive. Then he brings her back to his arms]
Professor Moody : Scores of wizards and witches claimed that they only did You-Know-Who's bidding under the effects of the Imperius Curse. But here's the rub... how do we sort out the liars?
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Professor Moody : Stupid ceiling.
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Professor Moody : [points to a mirror in his office] That's my Foe-Glass. Lets me keep an eye on my enemies. When I see the whites of their eyes, it means they're right behind me.
[a trunk in the office rocks violently, and a low moan comes from inside]
Professor Moody : Wouldn't even bother to tell you what's in there, wouldn't believe me if I did.
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[Harry, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape see Moody at the bottom of a deep, dark trunk]
Albus Dumbledore : Are you all right, Alastor?
Alastor "Mad Eye" Moody : I'm sorry, Albus.
Harry Potter : That's Moody, but then, who's--?
Severus Snape : [sniffs Moody's flask; to Dumbledore] Polyjuice Potion.
Albus Dumbledore : Now we know who's been stealing from your stores, Severus.
[to Moody]
Albus Dumbledore : We'll get you up in a minute!
[Moody groans]
