multi-culti wizarding education / Karkaroff / Pettigrew

tmarends tmarends at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 6 18:17:18 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 40853

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> 
> Canon asserts that some people served the Dark Lord under the 
> Imperius Curse (and when he fell, they kinda came out of trances -- 
> wouldn't their trance-like state have been visible before, and 
served 
> as a warning that there was Something Wrong?) rather than having 
> *chosen* evil (and currently it appears that Ludo Bagman passed 
> information out of sheer stupidity). So one *could* claim that all 
> Gryffindors who served the Dark Lord acted under Imperius or 
because 
> they had been fooled 


I don't think you can assume you could tell who was under the 
Imperius Curse.  Some Death Eaters claimed to be when they weren't... 
they just didn't want to go to Azkaban.  In GoF Moody/Crouch Jr. put 
Krum under one to attack Fleur and Cedric, and they didn't know he 
was under one at the time.  

Tim A.







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