OOP: The Unforgivable Curses

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No: HPFGUIDX 67666

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lark Austin-Black 
<lark_austin_black at y...> wrote:
> Nick Angiolillo wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

You're right..sorta. It's not just anger. At least not according to 
Bellatrix Lestrange (and she would know). The only way to get an 
Unforgiveable to work is that "You have to mean them! You need to 
really want to cause pain--to enjoy it..."

So while I think anger does play a part in it, it's more than that. 
It's...well I suppose you could call it evilness, for lack of a 
better word. To use the Avada Kedavra ( ::: shudders ::: )as an 
example. It's one thing to just want to kill someone,its a whole 
nother thing to enjoy murder. 

And on that happy little note....

Fell.E.Tone