TBAY: The Night The Jabberknoll Screamed

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 38897

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "archeaologee" <JPA30 at c...> wrote:
> Am I being thick here (or worse ignorant), but I always assumed the 
> imperious curse made you act a certain way, not think.
> 
> I never saw anything in the books that said it could do any more 
than 
> make you do and say what you are told to.  Voldemort tells (word 
for 
> word) harry what to do and say.  I can see them saying "jump up and 
> down" or "say "I love Kevin Smith movies but think Ben Afflick has 
> TPS"" but never thought you could say "tell us what you know" as 
that 
> is not an action command.
> 
> Harry always has his inner voice when he's under it (although I 
admit 
> he's special) and all the instructions are direct commands to act 
in 
> a certain way.  
> 
> It's almost like you cede control of your body to someone else, but 
> not like you are hypnotised or they see\control your mind.
> 
> James

Also -- Every time Harry's resisted imperius - it's I WON'T. Refusing 
to act. (Krum obviously *can't* do that - no wonder Sirius was 
worried - something to do with Durmstrang discipline?)

Then, for Crouch Jr. and Real Moody it was *Do NOT move* - for Crouch 
Sr. "Act normally"-- This sort of *negative* command is obviously 
harder to resist. As you should a) Decide what to do, b) do it c) 
resist imperius. Refusing an act only takes c), which in itself is 
hard enough.

Also... Imperius can't make you do something you don't know how to 
do. A student like Harry and his fellow Gryffindors could not be 
imperious'ed to put a DA-curse on someone because they don't know how 
to cast it. (No wonder Durmstrang students aren't trusted - they 
*know* how to cast the Unforgivables - thy *might* be under Imperious 
to cast it on you!)

-- Finwitch