Resisting the Imperius Curse

clicketykeys <clicketykeys@yahoo.com> clicketykeys at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 21 19:18:37 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 48656

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002 <
erisedstraeh2002 at y...>" <erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:


> What confuses me is that Harry, the only student who can withstand 
> the curse, seems to do so innately.  The "voice in the back of his 
> brain" tells him not to obey Fake!Moody's commands.  Yet Fake!Moody 
> talks about "teaching" the students to fight the Imperius curse, and 
> he assigns them reading on resisting the curse.

But we don't know that the other students /didn't/ have a voice 
telling them not to obey - only that they didn't listen to the voice 
as effectively as Harry did.

CK






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