Umbridge (WAS: Umbridge's Rape (Was: ...Half-Breed???))

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 78291

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jsmgleaner" <jsmgleaner at y...> 
wrote:
> Shirley:
> > 
> > I've read this several times in these Umbridge threads, and I 
just 
> > have to correct it:  Umbridge was about to use the Cruciatis 
(sp?) 
> > curse on Harry; *not* the AK curse.
>
jsmgleaner: 
> Oops.  Do I get to say that I was thinking "Cruciatus" when I 
wrote "AK"?  I 
> swear!!  Still, the move is "unforgivable"?
>

Shirley:  No worries; I was certain that's what you meant, but still 
wanted to clarify it. 

jsmgleaner:
> By the way, that makes me think: why "unfrorgivable"?  Have people 
on this 
> list parsed that word choice already?  I mean, as opposed 
to "illegal," 
> although I know that Fake!Moody uses that term in the GoF chapter 
as well.
> 
> -- jsmgleaner, who must be the only list member to have read OOtP 
only once.

Shirley, again:  I don't know why the "unforgiveable" label, either, 
because "illegal" seems more appropriate to me.  Unforgiveable to 
whom?  But maybe I'm just being obtuse.  (and I have no idea whether 
that's been discussed or not.  I'm trying to get through the entire 
almost 80,000 posts in order, but it's extremely slow going, even 
when skimming/skipping!!)