OOP-Harry & Unforgivables

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No: HPFGUIDX 66379

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
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> Some of us are upset that Harry attempted the Crucio spell. . . Has 
> it hit anyone else that, due to the prophecy, Harry is going to 
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> to -- HAVE to, no choice in the matter -- use Avada Kedavra?
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> And, how do you learn how to do that? How do yolu practice?
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> Bohcoo

Well, Harry's not only used the Cruciatus Curse but thought about 
using it before (on Snape). He did manage to cast it without any 
practice and though it didn't work well (though, really, it worked 
admirably for a first try) it did work. The difference is that if 
Avada Kedavra worked *at all* it'd have done its function and killed 
Voldemort (or whoever Harry is aiming it at).

I fully expect Harry will use the curse, though not necessarily on 
Voldemort (as that might backfire). Harry's natural (or perhaps 
taught by the Dursleys) tendencies are showing through and with the 
loss of his idealisation of the his father and the death of Sirius he 
had very little reason left to be a 'good kid' and follow the rules 
(or social conventions). Not that I think he's going to be using the 
curse left and right but I don't think he'd have a moral problem 
doing it. Remember, he only saved Pettigrew because Pettigrew said 
that his father (James) wouldn't have let him (Peter) be killed. That 
reasoning? Not going to fly anymore. Harry's seen what his father is 
capable of doing out of mere boredom. 

Sirius or Dumbledore might have been able to reason him but, of 
course, Sirius is dead and Dumbledore has been shown to be quite 
capable of screwing up. Harry doesn't trust Dumbledore half as much 
anymore and therefore Dumbledore has lost a lot of his hold on him.

However, I don't think he'd necessary *have* to use Avada Kedavra. 
After all, he might want Voldemort to suffer first. 

- Andrea.