OoP - Jenny's Big Questions - Spoilers!

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No: HPFGUIDX 67339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mandy" <ravenclawmandy at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gregory Carr" <gcarr at n...> 
> wrote:
> >   --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw"
> >   <meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> >   > Hey!  Wow - we made it!  I am still digesting it all and am
> >   currently
> >   > on my second read.  I have some burning questions, though and
> >   wonder
> >   > what you all think.
> >   
> >    S
> >    P
> >    O
> >    I
> >    L
> >    E
> >    R
> >    S
> >  
> >   >> 2. What do you think of Harry using Crucio on Bellatrix?  
This 
> was
> >   a big shock to me.
> > 
> >   Me:
> >   I was not that shocked. I think Harry was just doing what any 
> trained
> > auror would have done in the same circumstance. Remember, 
Bellatrix 
> is a
> > known user of the unforgivables, particularly the cruciatus curse 
> in the
> > torture of the Longbottoms. I think Harry believed, ( and I do 
> too), that
> > she would have had no problem using it on him. So kudos to Harry, 
> shoot
> > first or be shot.
> > 
> >   Just my two sickles worth.
> > 
> >   rastabana.
> 
> I agree with rastbana. I also think he did it more for neville than 
> anything, to give Bellatrix a taste of her own cruelty. I think 
harry 
> more than anyone in the D.A. could sympathize with Neville about 
his 
> parents. Although Frank and Alice Longbottom are not dead as Lily 
and 
> James are they are worse ,not knowing who they are or anything. I 
> think Harry feels a little protective of Neville more so than 
anyone 
> else. Just my opinion.
> 
> ravenclawmandy

I don't think Harry was quite as clear as that as to what he was 
doing. He was angry and blinded by his grief for Sirius, more like, 
and did the first thing that came to his mind. And I am shocked that 
it was an unforgivable curse! 

Sure enough, this goes to show Harry isn't only Perfect little 
Potter, that there is a darker side to him, too. But it's very scary 
in a way, because he is only 15, after all. I'm quite sure Voldemort 
will be very pleased about this weakness in Harry.

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