Unforgivables Dark Magic?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 47143

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> I've been poking about the archives and found some 
interesting
> discussions on what constitutes Dark Magic, which have left 
me with a question. Does it ever state in the books that the 
Unforgivables are Dark Magic? <<

Sirius implies they are not. He says that Barty Crouch Sr. was 
"always very outspoken against the Dark Side"  (GoF 27) and yet 
he "authorized the use of the Unforgiveable Curses against 
suspects."  Barty fought violence with violence, but not Dark with 
Dark.

I think Dark Magic must damage the user. Hagrid says when 
wizards who go over to the Dark Side, nothing and nobody 
matters to them anymore, doesn't he? (Can't find my PoA, but it's 
in the Three Broomsticks scene)  It sounds as though the use of 
Dark Magic eventually destroys one's capacity for empathy and 
remorse.  In the Potterverse, people can turn themselves into 
rats and beetles, so why not into sociopaths?

That would fit with old Crouch's state when Harry meets him in 
the Forest. He obviously hasn't lost the capability to feel remorse, 
though he's been using Imperius heavily for many years to 
control young Barty. 

Pippin