THe nature of the Unforgivables(was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Bang!You're dead.)

[Angel Moules]

No: HPFGUIDX 86571

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 22:50, Kathryn Cawte wrote:

>
> Angel:
> But this raises an interesting question. In Moody's lesson he talks
> about using AK, and said he wouldn't get a nosebleed if the whole
class
> did it. If Neville had had the torture of his parents uppermost in his
> mind and all the hatred at Crouch, could he have killed Moody, at that
> point, because of it?
>


K :
I think, had Neville *known* it was a DE standing in front of him he
*might* have been able to kill him (although I think there's a good chance he'd
only be able to muster that much hatred at the Lestranges), but surely he'd
have had to know that the person he was casting AK on i.e. Moody was in fact
Crouch - if not maybe they should get someone capable of casting the AK,
someone who (presumably) is skilled at Dark Arts and hates Death Eaters
(oh say, Snape) to run through a list of all the known DEs in his head and
cast AK on the new DADA teacher each year if said teacher then suddenly
dropped dead they'd know he/she was an impostor.

Angel:
The problem is that Quirrellmort wasn't an impostor, he merely had more
attached to him than one might expect.

Crouch jnr was involved in the torture of the longbottoms, and Neville
would have known that. I'm merely wondering how the focus of hatred
works.

Angel