Various bits and pieces

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No: HPFGUIDX 14565

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ender_w" <ender_w at m...> wrote:
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Amy Z 
>   To: HPforGrownups at y... 
>   Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:37 AM
>   Subject: [HPforGrownups] Various bits and pieces  
> 
>   Ender wrote:
>   > Harry's ability to fight the imperio curse would have been
>   > valuable information for Voldemort and his peeps.
> 
>   Catlady wrote:
>   >Except that apparently Crouch didn't pass that info to Voldemort 
>   before
>   >V attacked Harry, or else V didn't realise that the info was 
valuable.
> 
>   Amy wrote:
>   >>I wonder if this is another example of Voldemort's arrogance.  
Perhaps 
>   >>Crouch did tell him, but Voldemort thought, "He might be able 
to 
>   >>resist Crouch's Imperius, but just let him try to resist 
>>mine!"  
> 
>   That's what I was thinking as well.  Isn't it true that Harry 
only partially resists Moody's imperio curse? I don't have my GoF 
book with me so I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that Harry 
didn't completely throw off "Moody's" curse, but instead only 
succeeded in banging up his shins as he half obeyed and half 
resisted.  
> 

But that was only the first time. After that "Moody" (good idea, 
Susan) made him go through four more Imperios until he could throw 
them off completely.

That, BTW, is related to a question I've been mulling over for some 
time - what do you think is the relationship between a wizard's 
powers and his ability to resist the Imperius curse? For instance, 
Crouch Sr. is described as "powerfully magic", and yet he succumbed 
to Voldy's curse. OK, so that can be explained by Voldy's being more 
powerful than him. But Moody (the real one) remained under Crouch 
Jr.'s curse for months on end. It doesn't seem reasonable to me that 
Crouch Jr. is more magically powerful than the best Auror there ever 
was. So - what makes one wizard more or less susceptible to the 
Imperio? Is it strength of character and doesn't have anything to do 
with magical ability? Or perhaps magical ability is correlated in 
some measure with strength of character (however that is defined)? Or 
maybe, the ability to resist the curse comes from strenght of 
character whereas the ability to dominate with the curse comes from 
magica power?

Naama, whose so happy that she has at last submitted her long (long!) 
overdue paper so she can finally turn her mind to really important 
things ..