Aiming Wand at Bellatrix Lestrange: CRUCIO!

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 79398

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

But we only know what's needed to effectively cast Crucio because 
Bella told Harry.  And I, for one, don't trust anything that comes 
out of a DE's mouth to be truth.

"msbeadsley"