[HPforGrownups] Re: MadEye & Malfoy - James & Snape - Everyone & Umbridge

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No: HPFGUIDX 69007

In a message dated 7/10/2003 1:14:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rachrobins at hotmail.com writes:


> I have been mulling over this one for some time - Bellatrix told 
> Harry that the secret of the unforgivables is that you have to enjoy 
> it - which is why Harry's attempt at the Cruciatus Charm was 
> relativley ineffective.  Dumbledore asked Moody to show the fourth 
> years what they were up against - does that mean that Moody (the real 
> one, who Dumbledore thought he was talking to) would have had to 
> enjoy torturing and killing the spiders?  
> 
> Okay now I'm confusing myself!
> 
> rachel
> 

I think it's less "Enjoy" more "Want"

You have to sincerley know pain, and want to personally hurt someone in order 
to manage it.  Maliciousness in two cases out of three, impersonal distance 
to view someone as an item, or malicious wish for control in third.

WARNING: ICKYNESS

You have to want to shatter their bones under your heel so you can pluck a 
spinter of bone from their mangled limb and cut and cut and make them bleed and 
flay their skin from flesh so screaming live nerves are exposed to the open 
air.  And then to rub salt into the wounds.

You have to want to kill someone, you have to want to feel their life drain 
away under your hands.  You have to want to squease their necks, to cut them 
open so they bleed to death in a wash of brillate crimson.  You have to want to 
see that instant of death and know what it means and to have done it.

You have to see someone as a thing, a non entity.  You have to see controling 
them as no diffrent than casting a spell to move something on an every day 
object.  They must be nothing to you.  Less than a beast.  Or you have to 
maliciously wish to control them, to hold their minds in your grip.

/ICKYNESS

That is what I think it takes to cast an unforgivable.


Nemi
       --Black Dragon
       --Slasher and Yaoist
       --Utterly Psycotic


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