[HPforGrownups] Imperius Curse/ Evil Percy

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 40772

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
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>> Anyway, in the graveyard Harry gets an experience with Voldemort's
imperius curse first that >>he can't throw off.  That's when he bowed to
Voldemort before the "duel."  Could it have been >>that since he'd
experienced one imperius curse from Voldemort that he was more prepared
>>for the second?  And that's why he could throw it off?

Then Naama writes:

>There was only one Imperius. The bow was not the result of Imperius,
>but of some other spell (unspecified) that forced Harry's *body* to
>move, unlike the Imperius which subjugates the victim's will.

How do you figure?  The way I see it, your will controls your body's
actions.  Therefore you must bend the will to bend the body so to speak.
When Moody/Crouch is placing the Imperius curse on students for them to feel
it, he does things with their bodies.  Someone did cartwheels I think, and
he tried to make Harry jump up onto the desk.  Surely Harry's will would not
have been to bow to Voldemort, therefore the will must be bent first to
cause the body to bend.  Comments?

In other things, I watched the HP SS/PS movie for about the fifth or sixth
time and noticed a line from Quirrell.  I checked the book, and sure enough
it's in there.  "There is no good and evil, there is only power and those
too weak to seek it."  This reminded me a great deal of Percy Weasley.  In
GoF he was so obsessed with his new found power that he wasn't concerned
about his missing boss as others were.  He was instead enjoying his power.
This makes me think that Percy could indeed turn to Voldemort in search of
power.

Richelle