Moody's Trunk
Moody's Trunk
Object information
Location
- "He was looking down into a kind of pit, an underground room, and lying on the floor some ten feet below, apparently fast asleep, thin and starved in appearance, was the real Mad-Eye Moody. His wooden leg was gone, the socket that should have held the magical eye looked empty beneath its lid, and chunks of his grizzled hair were missing.Harry stared, thunderstruck, between the sleeping Moody in the trunk and the unconscious Moody lying on the floor of the office."
- — Alastor Moody imprisoned in his trunk[src]
Moody's Trunk[3] was a heavilybewitchedmagical trunk owned byAlastor Moody.[1][2]
Description[]
Alastor Moody imprisoned at the bottom of his trunk
It had seven locks on it, and the trunk opened to a different assortment of objects for each lock. The first compartment contained a mass ofspellbooks. The second contained an assortment of brokenSneakoscopes, parchments,quills, and a silveryInvisibility Cloak. Most notably, though, the seventh compartment was about 10 feet (3.0 m) deep (possibly because of the use of anUndetectable Extension Charm), and was whereBartemius Crouch Junior imprisoned the real Moody in1994 to1995.[2] It is presumably in this last compartment that Moody kept capturedDark wizards andDeath Eaters for transport during his days as anAuror.
Behind the scenes[]
Snape casting a spell to open the trunk in the film
This trunk on display at aGoblet of Fire convention
- In thefilm adaptation ofHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Crouch invited Harry into his office, Moody let out a scream and struggle, causing the trunk to shake violently, which Crouch laughingly told Harry he "wouldn't even bother telling [him] what's in there".[4]
- In thefilm adaptation ofHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,Severus Snape uses aspell to unlock Moody's trunk (possibly theBox Blasting Charm),[5] whereas in the book, Dumbledore opens the trunk mechanically with keys.[2]
- In the film, the trunk is depicted as having a smaller trunk within for each different compartment, up to seven trunks, instead of a single trunk with seven keyholes.[5]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Pottermore(First identified as Moody's Trunk)
- HarryPotter.com
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Notes and references[]
- ↑1.01.11.2Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 20 (The First Task)
- ↑2.02.12.22.32.42.5Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 35 (Veritaserum)
- ↑Pottermore -From the Story: Moody's Trunk
- ↑Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 12 (The Hungarian Horntail)
- ↑5.05.1Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 30 (I'm not Moody)