Moody makes time for every potential threat and for the occasional artifact hunt. You can argue it's not one of his priorities, but he's not exactly pressed for time should he so wish.
A much bigger problem is the inevitable distraction. He can have time-turned selves and possibly allies watching his back, his currently active enemies, and Quirrell's potential plots, but so can Quirrell. And there are probably more dark wizards who would benefit from Moody being distracted than the reverse. And is Moody even an Animagus? If not, or depending on his form, that's another advantage for Quirrell.
They could take an Unbreakable vow to abstain from shenanigans while on dates, but that's way too big a constraint for either to accept, doesn't stop third parties, and is probably full of loopholes.
They could take an Unbreakable vow to abstain from shenanigans while on dates
An Unbreakable vow requires one party to sacrifice the possibility of freely trusting the other party. That's not a healthy relationship.
Edit: New thread posted here.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 86. The previous thread has long passed 500 comments.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
The first 5 discussion threads are on the main page under the harry_potter tag. Threads 6 and on (including this one) are in the discussion section using its separate tag system. Also: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
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