[HPforGrownups] OOP: Curses, foiled again...

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 61796

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At 8:44 PM -0700 6/22/03, <skye_es_ilistara at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Was anyone else really disturbed/upset/confused by
>Harry's use of the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix
>Lestrange?

*Yes.*  To be honest, I would have understood it better if it were 
Neville who did that.  (This despite my rather liking the theory of 
Neville as Prince Renunciate.)

>I was utterly shocked when I saw it.  The more I
>thought about it, especially alongside the rising
>anger and hatred in Harry's soul...  I'm beginning to
>be afraid that the ending we're all awaiting at the
>end of Book Seven is a bitter victory, in which Harry
>kills Voldemort... but goes Dark himself.

What I am wondering is if, by the end of the seventh book, Harry will 
have used all three Unforgivables - he just used Cruciatus, and we 
are getting very strong suggestions that he will have to use Avada 
Kedavra in the seventh book.  (Perhaps he will Imperio Wormtail in 
the sixth book?)

One assumes that they are called Unforgivables for a reason.  The 
Ministry doesn't seem aware that Harry used it, and given that it was 
on Mrs. Lestrange, they might not care.  I have a strong sense that 
neither Harry nor Dumbledore will be forgetting this, though - and 
that Harry, at least, will not be forgiving himself for it.

Having said that, it didn't seem very effective, did it?  She as much 
as tells him flat out that he won't ever be any good at the 
Unforgivable Curses, as he's far too pure at heart.  Is all this 
anger building up to him actually being able to cast an effective AK 
at the end of the seventh book?

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