Ron, Hermione, and the Imperius Curse (some John Wayne grandstanding)

Tue Sep 4 21:57:31 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 25575

Penny wrote:

> HERMIONE & THE IMPERIUS CURSE -- Interesting question!  I wish I'd 
> gotten in on this one a bit earlier as everyone has mostly said 
what I 
> would say.  I agree with those who say Hermione has the strength of 
> character & will to probably stand a good chance of resisting the 
> Imperius Curse or at least putting up a good fight.  She probably 
is 
> somewhere between Harry throwing it off entirely early-on and Ron 
who 
> can't resist it at all.  BTW, Catherine, yes I very much agree that 
JKR 
> is hinting or foreshadowing some problems with Ron's inability to 
resist 
> Imperius.

*pulls up the belt of her hip holsters*  All right, well it looks 
like I'm gonna hafta start myself a new club with a cute acronym 
name.  I'm gonna call it the C.R.A.B. club:  The Cut Ron A Break 
club.  I'd'a called it the Cut Ron A Bitta Slack club, but C.R.A.B.S. 
has a rather unfortunate connotation, see.  I'm taking subscriptions 
of two Sickles starting today.  :~)

All it says in GoF is that Harry was the only one to resist the 
Imperius Curse.  The rest of them "recovered only when [Mad-Eye 
Moody] lifted" the curse, IIRC, don't have the book at work (need to 
become more dedicated obviously).  Then it goes on to say that Ron 
was limping because he had "a more difficult time" resisting the 
curse than Harry.  That's different from not being able to do it at 
all.  You can interpret Ron's difficulty as a foreshadowing, which I 
don't quibble with, but you can't say that Hermione would be more 
successful than Ron based on this particular scene.  You'd have to 
extrapolate it from elsewhere.  This scene says to me that Ron 
actually *did* put up a fight, since it wound up bruising him; 
whereas no one else besides Harry is mentioned as receiving bruises 
in the fight against an Unforgivable Curse.