PERSONALITY

History

A Pureblood by birth, Alastor grew up as the son of two very happy magical parents.  Ewan and Isla Moody, both Scottish, and fairly old to have children.  However, Ewan was a very proud sort of person, and he instilled training in his son that would later not help his paranoia at all.  Mostly it was practicing magic early so he could defend himself, as his father was very unhappy with how the world was going. 

He instilled a hatred in Al of those who joined the uprising dictators - grindlewald was the historical example and voldemort the current example.  Thus began Al's distaste for every sort of dark wizard out there.

When he was 5 years old, he had a best friend named Hamish.  However, when he was out playing with the other kids around their area, Hamish didn't pick al to be on his team once.  Al never forgave him, especially after his father constantly told him he shouldn't hang out with hamish because he was obviously no good as he didn't value their friendship.  Obviously. The two had a row and never saw each other again.  

Two years later, there was this muggle girl that al had a crush on.  he'd go over to her house fairly often and they'd play together.  However one time she invited him to her eighth birthday, and ended up locking him in a closet and teasing him in front of all of her friends.  He was so betrayed.  And his father fueled the feeling of betrayal.

That was just the start of the paranoia - what really triggered it was what happened after his first year at hogwarts.  when Al was sorted into Slytherin, his father was disappointed - only evil people went into slytherin.  Al wanted to prove him wrong.  however, that summer, he woke up seeing his father standing over his bed.  He barely managed to dodge the killing curse and then his mother came barreling in.  

His father was sent to azkaban and Al lived with his mother after that.  he continued going to school, but his paranoia only grew, and he became very combative, ending up in detention very often, though he viewed it as defending himself.  One time he blew up a birthday cake he had been sent by his mother thinking it was a basilisk egg in disguise ready to jump out and kill him.  It caused a scene as it happened in the great hall.  Regardless, the paranoid moody didn't really hit rock bottom until last summer.

Just over this last summer, he followed some people he suspected as being death eaters to their homes, and when he saw others who he was pretty sure were death eaters, he formulated a plan and went to arrest them - after all, he'd be a good guy from slytherin.  But he also didn't want his house to define him at all. 


However, he ended up losing his eye and being saved by albus dumbledore who whisked him away.  He was given a new glass eye that had magical properties, mostly the ability to see through just about anything, in order to replace the one he had lost.