"So, I must raise my most fundamental question."
Moody once again aimed his attack squarely at Douglas and the Marauders Power Company behind him.
"Does a commercial company have the right to use Hogwarts students, the future of our magical world, as testers for its new products? As experimental subjects for promoting its own theories?"
"Today, they can put Itchy Kelp at the bottom of the lake. Tomorrow, in the far more complicated third task, will they dare to put in a real, hungry Norwegian Ridgeback for the sake of so-called testing effectiveness?"
This highly inflammatory remark successfully stirred a flicker of panic among the students.
"No, Alastor, that is sheer scaremongering!"
Professor McGonagall finally could not help speaking up. Her voice was as stern as ever, but her brows were tightly knitted.
Although she disagreed with Moody's almost judicial approach, the argument about student safety was one that even she, a deputy headmistress who regarded protecting students as her duty, could not easily refute.
"Scaremongering? Minerva, I certainly hope so."
Moody's tone did not soften in the slightest.
"We have all lived through war. We all know that one tiny oversight can lead to an irreversible tragedy."
"We cannot entrust the lives and safety of hundreds of children to a commercial company's morality and self-restraint!
"Still less can we entrust them to the personal whims of a so-called genius professor who enjoys experimenting on students!"
With highly inflammatory language, he painted the terrible consequences of allowing these amateurs to continue designing the third task.
"The third task will be an enormous, complicated maze filled with unknown dangers!
"I demand-no, I beg!
"Experienced professionals must lead or oversee the safety work to ensure that every child's life receives the most absolute protection!"
The moment he finished, the Great Hall erupted.