Moody's Trunk

Moody's Trunk
Object information
Location	Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher's office, Hogwarts Castle (formerly)
Usage	Storage
Owners	Alastor Moody Bartemius Crouch Junior

"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

Moody's Trunk was a heavily bewitched magical trunk owned by Alastor Moody.

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 of spellbooks. The second contained an assortment of broken Sneakoscopes, parchments, quills, and a silvery Invisibility Cloak. Most notably, though, the seventh compartment was about 10 feet (3.0 m) deep (possibly because of the use of an Undetectable Extension Charm), and was where Bartemius Crouch Junior imprisoned the real Moody in 1994 to 1995. It is presumably in this last compartment that Moody kept captured Dark wizards and Death Eaters for transport during his days as an Auror.

Behind the scenes

Snape casting a spell to open the trunk in the film

This trunk on display at a Goblet of Fire convention

• In the film adaptation of Harry 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".
• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Severus Snape uses a spell to unlock Moody's trunk (possibly the Box Blasting Charm), whereas in the book, Dumbledore opens the trunk mechanically with keys.
• 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.

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)
• Harry Potter (website)
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite