OOP: The Unforgivable Curses

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No: HPFGUIDX 67638

I was wondering what you all might think about this.

In OOP, I think one of the most interesting parts of the novel was 
Harry attempting to use the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix.  We soon 
learn that one cannot successfully cast this spell without feeling 
an intense amount of anger.

This got me thinking, though, whether it's not just anger that is 
needed to cast one of the unforgivable curses (aside from tremendous 
magic ability).  I think that to successfully use the curse, you 
must have true evil in your heart.

Would Harry even be able to successfully cast the curse given that 
we know he is not evil, and is likely not capable of evil?  At first 
I thought he screwed up the curse on Bellatrix because he either 
wasn't mad enough at her (which I doubt, considering what just 
happened to Sirius), because he does not have enough magic power 
(again, unlikely because we've seen what this kid can do at times 
like these), or because he really just CAN'T!

I guess this makes me wonder if even *Dumbledore* could pull off 
Crucio, Avada Kedavra, etc.  Not that he would ever need to or want 
to, I'm just wondering if he even CAN do it.

Any thoughts?


__Nick Angiolillo

(Sorry if this was brought up before.. tried a search and didn't 
find anything).