Constant vigilance. He said it so many times, in so many contexts, with such complete conviction, that an entire generation of Harry Potter readers says it reflexively whenever something requires attention. This is his legacy. It is a good one.
Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody is one of J.K. Rowling's finest supporting creations — a retired Auror of legendary status, veteran of the first war against Voldemort, collector of Dark wizards and Dark wizard-related injuries, possessor of one real eye and one enchanted magical eye that rotates in its socket and sees through walls, invisibility cloaks and the back of his own head simultaneously. He is grizzled, paranoid, scarred, irascible and completely correct in his assessment that the wizarding world in 1994 is not as safe as people would like to believe. He has the Dark Mark tracking experience and the missing leg and the replacement nose to prove it.
The Moody who teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts in Goblet of Fire — vigorous, eccentric, transforming Draco Malfoy into a ferret with cheerful impunity — is, of course, not Moody at all, which makes the real Alastor's eventual appearance and death in Deathly Hallows more poignant than it might otherwise be. The genuine article, glimpsed briefly and remembered through others' accounts, was everything the impostor performed and something beyond it: a man who had spent a lifetime in the fight and not once considered stopping. Brendan Gleeson's portrayal, in the one film he actually played himself, suggested the full weight of that history in every scene.
Our Mad-Eye Moody collection brings together officially licensed figures, accessories and gifts for fans who always appreciated the most vigilant Auror in the Order's ranks — and who, on some level, have never quite stopped checking the perimeter.
CONSTANT VIGILANCE. You already knew.
