Aiming Wand at Bellatrix Lestrange: CRUCIO!

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 79341

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "James Redmont" 
<jamesredmont at h...> wrote:
> The fact that he used Crucio! must be important.  It's not 
something 
> she should lightly throw around, especially since she stressed that 
> you get a lifetime sentence in Azkaban for trying it.  Was it to 
> show us that he's not like the deatheaters?  or is it to show us he 
> reached his breaking point?  


Breaking point gets my vote.  Also to give the reader more 
information about what it takes to make the Crucio curse work. Before 
Harry tried to Crucio Bellatrix, I just assumed any clever wizard 
could eventually learn how to use that curse, but now we know it has 
to have a very intense feeling behind it of wanting to cause pain.

That makes me wonder, could DD really have killed Voldemort at the 
MOM? The AK must work like Crucio, requiring a force of wanting the 
person dead.  Dumbledore tells LV, "merely taking your life would not 
satisfy me, I admit--", so the feeling wouldn't be behind an AK. 

Jen Reese