OoP - Jenny's Big Questions - Spoilers!

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No: HPFGUIDX 67439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jekatiska" <mauranen at y...> 
wrote:
> --- > > >   >> 2. What do you think of Harry using Crucio on 
Bellatrix?  
> 
> 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.
> 
> Jekatiska

Me:

I wouldn't get too excited about this "dark side"/ star wars kind of 
connection.  I think JKR is going deeper than that.  The truth is we 
all have a dark side, and this kid is going to have to develop his 
because he just found out he must kill someone in order to live 
himself.  If he fails, not only he but presumably all that he still 
holds dear wil be lost or torturted.

There is no good popular paralellel for what Harry has just had laid 
on him.  He has grown up believing in right and wrong, developed a 
resevoir of love and compassion, and now has to act contrary to all 
that in order to defeat Voldemort.  One poster said that soldiers do 
this every day, but soldiers do not go into a battle knowing exactly 
who they have to kill.  Their enemy is still rather vague, faceless 
and therefore impersonal.  Throw a grenade, fire a rocket you are 
doing your part.

Harry will not have the luxury of dsistance.  THe prophecy says, 
Voldemort must "die at the other's hand" if Harry is to live.  His 
use of the cruiciatus curse is only the beginning of his maturation 
into an assasin. MAF