[HPforGrownups] Neville as Witness (was Re: TBAY: Memory Charm Neville

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 38899


Sunday, May 19, 2002, 4:25:50 AM, cindysphynx wrote:

c> Personally, I favor Option 2.  That allows our DEs to have a 
c> conscience, to have depths to which even Evil DEs will not sink.  
c> That gives us the tension that, at a crucial moment, a DE will 
c> refuse to do something especially wicked.

I always like it when an evil villian is shown to have some bit of
decency... I was thinking about this the other day while watching
_The Thief of Bagdad_ (1940 version), in one scene of which the evil
wizard Jaffar is about to put the Princess under his own version
of the Imperious Curse for the purpose of raping her, but he can't
bring himself to do it (even though he's not above murdering her
father, trying to murder her lover, or erasing her memory).

So I'm wondering: Will someone -- Lucius, Wormtail, Draco, or maybe
even the Big Guy Himself -- at some critical moment display a spark of
decency that ruins their own plans?

c> Now as for me, I'm still waiting for an answer to why the DEs didn't
c> use the undisputed quickest and most efficient way to get the 
c> information out of Frank -- The Imperius Curse. 

Maybe because they were under a memory charm, that only Cruciatus
could break (as with Bertha J.)?

-- 
Dave