The Imperius curse

Brooks R brooksar at indy.net
Mon Oct 2 13:58:46 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 2683

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eggplant88 at h... wrote:
>  "Brooks R" Wrote:
> 
> 
>   Harry gets it twice in the class when it was introduced, but 
> > didn't it say a few days later that Moody/Crouch told them that 
> > Dumbledore wanted them all to undergo it for practice, and there
> > imply that it was done over and over?
> 
> I don't remember anything like that.

US edition chapter 15 p.230.  On the first day of class Moody/Crouch 
shows them with the spiders, but on this page he tells them
Dumbledore wanted them all to experience it for practice.  On p.232 
"Moody had insisted on putting Harry through his paces *four times in 
a row*, until Harry could throw off the curse entirely".  Yet you are 
also right, in  Chapter 34, US page 61, "For the third time in his 
life, Harry felt..."  *-my emphasis

So what are we missing?  Or did JKR miscount?  Is there another 
occasion besides the lessons Harry experiences this?

-Brooks





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