Imperious Curse

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Imperious Curse
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6182] Imperious Curse
Date: 8/8/00 1:29 am  (ET)

> Moody taught Harry how to resist the curse. Why? There wasn't anything
in the maze that was going to use it against him, but Voldy. Why give
the boy additional armor? This is something that has bugged me...

This is one of the those questions that keep being asked. My friend Lee
thinks the answer is that both Voldemort and "Moody" are concerned about
fighting fair (clearly, only when they fight against Harry: there is
sure no concern about being fair to Cedric!!!). That could because of
some part of the mysterious Harry prophecy, or in order to impress the
watching Death Eaters, or just because the hero couldn't win if the bad
guy followed the Rule for Evil Overlord (a set of rules whose URL has
been posted in this list a couple of times, such as 'When you have the
hero at your mercy, shoot him right away, without taking time to explain
how you caught him or why you hate him).

However, I find much of the above theory pretty implausible and I, like
many people, figured the fake Moody taught Harry to resist the Imperius
Curse because Dumbledore had instructed him to and disobeying Dumbledore
would have caused suspicion. Lee rejects this theory, saying that we
have only "Moody"'s word for it that Dumbledore wanted the students
to be taught curses, that that seems to her to be out of character for
Dumbledore, and that she won't believe Anything "Moody" tells her without
some good corroboration.

So I then I said that "Moody" was actually testing out Harry's ability
to defend against the curses in order to forewarn V. what he was up
against so that V. could prepare.