Chapter 13 - Mad Eye Moody Summary

It is the first day of school, a time to get back into rhythm of interesting and boring classes, useful and useless information, and class work and homework. Students fret over pimples, diets, family affairs, and social issues. Hermione seriously takes up the cause to liberate elves. Ron's father is criticized in the newspaper by Rita Skeeter for apparently having embarrassed the Ministry in an incident with Mad Eye Moody. Harry is anxious, as he has not yet received news from his godfather, Sirius.

They begin the day collecting pus from strange plants. Next they listen to forebodings and predictions in the Divination class. Hagrid, now their teacher for Care of Magical Creatures, has the students care for smelly creatures called Blast-Ended Skrewts that let off explosions on one end and have stings on the...