Imperius & Religion

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No: HPFGUIDX 34417

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barb writes:	
> 
> Harry needed to learn to overcome Imperius to confront Voldemort, 
> and this is how he learned. There's no logical reason for Crouch to 
> do this. I doubt it would even be in character for the real Moody, 
> so he doesn't have that excuse either. JKR quite simply needed for 
> Harry to learn to do this and she failed to come up with a 
plausible 
> rationale for it.

For the record I agree with you, but let's say for the sake of 
argument that JKR's reason for having Crouch-As-Moody teach Harry the 
Imperius Curse stems from Crouch's character.  His faith in Voldemort 
is unshakeable because he doesn't really believe anyone can defeat 
V.  If I remember correctly, doesn't Crouch tell the class that the 
Unforgivable Curses require a certain amount of power, that if the 
students tried to inflict Avada Kedavra on him, he would wind up with 
nothing more than a nosebleed?  So perhaps even if Harry has some 
special ability for resisting Imperius, once Voldemort performed the 
curse on him Harry would be way out of his league.  Or so Crouch 
thought.  If this applies to only Avada Kedavra I'm way off though!
Ama