[HPforGrownups] Harry's Imperious Curse

[S. Navarro]

No: HPFGUIDX 60533

> > Another thought:  Maybe this is the missing "third time" that
> > Harry has been put under the Imperius.  There was some discussion
> > here about a month ago of the quote from the graveyard scene GoF
> > (chapter 34):
>
>IMO there is no missing 3rd time.  In the graveyard in GOF (book isn't 
>handy
>at the moment) it says it was the 3rd time that he felt the bliss of having
>his mind wiped clear of thought (or words to that effect.)  It also says
>something very much like this when he first encounters the Veela.  The 
>Veela Effect
>is IMO seems to be a milder Imperius.. no illegal and easier to resist. It 
>was
>making them do things that they wouldn't have normally done. That would 
>have
>been the 1st time, the classroom with Moody would have been 2nd,  graveyard
>3rd.

I don't have my book to check the reference, but I seem to remember 
Moody/Crouch teaching the imperious curse during DADA class, putting it on 
Harry, removing it when Harry wouldn't jump on the desk so he could talk to 
the class, then putting it on Harry again so he could learn to fight it.

Susan the Ravenclaw Bookworm

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