The Unforgivable Curses

[ingachristsuperstar <ingachristsuperstar@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48354

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy Bianchi" <
Resqgal911 at m...> wrote:
> This has been bothering me for a while.  Why does 
Crouch!Moody make sure
> that Harry learns to fight the imperio curse?  I would have 
expected someone
> that was helping V to get Harry to try to send him as 
unprepared as
> possible.  My next question is why focus so much on teaching 
all the
> students how to break the imperio curse when he is just 
supposed to be
> showing the curses to them.  I believe the answer to this is that 
Crouch Jr.
> didn't want anyone to suffer as he did all these years his father 
kept him
> in hiding.  But, this would give Crouch Jr. a little to much
credit.  
After
> all he did keep Real!Moody under imperio all this time.
> 
> Tammy


I agree with a lot of the points made in the other posts, but I 
wanted to add one more possibility.  I think that a lot of what 
happened in the graveyard was pagentry.  Voldemort felt he had 
to prove himself to the Death Eaters again - and especially to 
prove that he was stronger than Harry Potter who had 'defeated' 
him last time.  Now, he could have done this by showing he 
could put Harry under Imperio.  But an even more effective 
demonstration could have been for Crouch!Moody to teach Harry 
to fight Imperio.  Then Voldemort would be demonstrating - "look 
how powerful Harry Potter is and _I can still defeat him_". 

I don't think he wanted Harry to be weak.  A weak Harry would not 
have made Voldie look good, because it was Harry who 
defeated him.  Showing that he could defeat a strong and 
accomplished Harry who had just won the Tri-Wizard 
Tournament and could fight Imperio would be much more 
impressive.

Just a thought.

-Ing