Imperius!Weasleys

mitchbailey82 MITCHBAILEY82 at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 19 08:17:34 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 45553

There has been  lots of discussion  about the parallelism in the 
scene where Moody shows Harry's class the unforgivable curses. In 
fact it is one of the major canons for both imperius!Arthur and 
imperius!Molly.
The theory being Moody highlighted Neville with the cruciatus curse 
because of his parents and he highlighted Harry with the AK because 
of his parents and therefore as he highlighted Ron with the imperius 
curse Ron's parents must have had experience with it to keep the 
parallelism.
However the two theories focus on either Molly or Arthur being 
effected by it.

However:
Neville was highlighted with the cruciatus curse because BOTH his 
parents are in St Mungos because they were BOTH attacked by the curse.
Harry was highlighted with AK because BOTH his parents are dead 
because they were BOTH attacked by AK.
Therefore for the parallelism to truly exist in this scene Moody must 
have highlighted Ron because BOTH his parents were placed under the 
imperius curse. 

Look at what Moody says about the imperius curse shortly after 
acknowledging that Ron's Dad would know that one
"Years back there were a lot of witches and wizards being controlled 
by the imperius curse"  
Why highlight both witches and wizards why not say a lot of people 
were
 surely muggles were also affected by this curse?

I propose that imperius!Molly and imperius!Arthur are not mutually 
exclusive. 
And continuing with the parallelism and looking at the time spans in 
the other cases:
There isn't much of a gap (minutes maybe) between James and Lily 
being killed/ attacked with the AK.
It also seems that Neville's parents were attacked with the crucio at 
the same time.

I believe that Molly and Arthur  would have been both attacked with 
the imperius within a short time span of each other (if not at the 
same time).

Now all we need is an acronym How about


ICE CREAM
Imperius Curse Enslaving Controlled Reluctantly Ensnared Arthur & 
Molly

Not bad for my first acronym (even if I do say so myself)

Michelle






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