Aiming Wand at Bellatrix Lestrange: CRUCIO!

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No: HPFGUIDX 79356

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> 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

You know, I was wondering the same thing about the unforgivable 
curses.  Can wanting the person dead be enough to use Avada Kedavra, 
or does one have to like killing?  I also thought that any powerful 
wizard could use the curse.  I like the idea that one has to enjoy 
causing the results of the unforgivables in order to use them.  And 
it made Umbridge's character so much more repugnant for me.  JKR 
left clues that Umbridge liked causing pain (smiling over Harry's 
pain in detention), but she liked causing pain enough to almost use 
crucio on Harry.  And we saw Draco's reaction to this: he seemed to 
be enjoying watching Harry about to get tortured.  Not to mention 
wanting to get his hands on Dumbledore's "weapon."  
Sarah