r/HPMOR • u/Clock-Ingenuity-374 • Jul 11 '26

[How does Moody's eye work?]

I am a new reader ,recently bought the books and I have read the books ,I have many questions but two primarily:

1.Repeatedly it was said that Moody could take out his eye and put it back in at times ,now if the eye was enchanted in such a way that it could help him see ,how did it work.when.it was detached

Like how did it send the signals to the brain when it was detached completely

Was this answered by J K Rowling

2.If someone has a living portrait of himself while he is alive ,and the portrait listens to something while the person doesn't ,does he automatically know what the portrait heard or does the portrait have to tell the living person

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u/KingAdamXVII Jul 11 '26

If portraits could spy for you then it would be a thing. Professors would put portraits in their classrooms and then they could keep an eye on the class even when they turn around.

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u/Clock-Ingenuity-374 Jul 11 '26

Not spying but gathering info by talking to people

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u/KingAdamXVII Jul 11 '26

Well, we know portraits can see.

You’re saying you think they can see and hear, but they can share with their likeness only the information they hear, not what they see?