Okay, using centuries to describe wizard fashion was a silly thing to do. And I was unfamiliar with serious modern eyepatches—most of the time I’ve seen something for that purpose, it’s either sunglasses of some sort, or an “eyepatch” that’s more of a temporary dressing than anything.
Though I don’t see why a turban would raise eyebrows. Admittedly, white guys wearing them is unusual, but turbans are hardly rare. And everybody knows Moody’s a bit of a loon, so...well, I suppose that by explaining why he has his weird headpiece, I’m also arguing for why he could probably get away with an eyepatch if he wanted to.
Maybe he got the Eye in a way that was made public despite his best efforts, and so he figured he’d do better to obfuscate its exact powers than to try to conceal its existence?
One could argue both ways. As I recall, he knocked over some third-world (or, since it’s magical, negative-third-world) country to loot the artifact from a tinpot dictator. On the one hand, that sounds pretty dang public on the face of it; on the other, he phrases it as ‘somewhere he doesn’t have to worry about silly rules’ (such as “don’t hunt down and kill people because you want their things”), implying Britain isn’t paying a lot of attention to the place in any event.
Okay, using centuries to describe wizard fashion was a silly thing to do. And I was unfamiliar with serious modern eyepatches—most of the time I’ve seen something for that purpose, it’s either sunglasses of some sort, or an “eyepatch” that’s more of a temporary dressing than anything.
Though I don’t see why a turban would raise eyebrows. Admittedly, white guys wearing them is unusual, but turbans are hardly rare. And everybody knows Moody’s a bit of a loon, so...well, I suppose that by explaining why he has his weird headpiece, I’m also arguing for why he could probably get away with an eyepatch if he wanted to.
Maybe he got the Eye in a way that was made public despite his best efforts, and so he figured he’d do better to obfuscate its exact powers than to try to conceal its existence?
One could argue both ways. As I recall, he knocked over some third-world (or, since it’s magical, negative-third-world) country to loot the artifact from a tinpot dictator. On the one hand, that sounds pretty dang public on the face of it; on the other, he phrases it as ‘somewhere he doesn’t have to worry about silly rules’ (such as “don’t hunt down and kill people because you want their things”), implying Britain isn’t paying a lot of attention to the place in any event.