Given Moody's role as the leader, as well as the additional benefits his magical eye bestowed upon him, a clear view of the battlefield would have been of surpassing importance to him. While the eye does provide 360 degree visibility, a recumbent orientation may have been more natural for him, and he may have feared that a prone perspective may ... More @Wikipedia
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