Following a series of bizarre stunts orchestrated by Albert, Professor Moody’s act of dropping Albert’s name into the Goblet of Fire spread like wildfire among the girls at Hogwarts. Nothing stirs up student curiosity and imagination quite like gossip, and all sorts of strange rumors even managed to reach the professors' ears.
That afternoon, in the Defense Against the Dark Arts Office, Professor Moody was once again smashing things around to vent his inner rage. Just moments before, someone had actually run up to him to ask whether the rumor was true, and several girls had even thanked him for putting Albert’s name into the Goblet of Fire.
Yes, on his way back to the Defense Against the Dark Arts Office, Moody had actually run into precisely that: a crowd of people surrounding him to ask about the matter, all convinced that Professor Moody had preempted some plot by other schools to stop Hogwarts from winning the championship.
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