The Imperius curse

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<fluctuation at r...> Wrote:

>One thing that really bugs me is why Moody/Barty Crouch Jr.
>would make Harry go through the Imperius curse over and over again 
>until he got it right? Wouldn't he have realised that Voldrmort 
>might need the curse to take control of Harry? 

It says near the end of Goblet of Fire when he encounters
Mr. Riddle that Harry experienced the imperius curse for only the 
third time in his life, so Moody didn't do it over and over again, he 
did it exactly twice.  The first time Harry almost defeated it, then 
it says by the end of the class Harry could overcome it completely. 
So he must have done it two times. And I think it just came naturally 
to Harry. Moody (AKA Crouch JR) didn't teach him how to resist it, 
how could he? Crouch himself found it enormously difficult to resist 
the Imperius Curse, it took him years and then was only partially 
successful, and you can't teach what you don't know. Harry defeated 
it completely in just a few minutes on only his second try. For some 
reason the curse was kid stuff to Harry, resisting it was easy.