OOP: Curses, foiled again...

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No: HPFGUIDX 62280

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Boggess Ramon 
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> At 8:44 PM -0700 6/22/03, <skye_es_ilistara at y...> wrote:
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> >Was anyone else really disturbed/upset/confused by
> >Harry's use of the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix
> >Lestrange?
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> *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.)
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> >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.
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> 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?)
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> 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 
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> neither Harry nor Dumbledore will be forgetting this, though - and 
> that Harry, at least, will not be forgiving himself for it.
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> Having said that, it didn't seem very effective, did it?  She as 
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> 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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>   - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon



But isn't it a bit of an inconsistency, to be asserting that HP will 
have to use AK on Voldemort in Book 7 when Dumbledore basically said 
that Love is Harry's Secret Weapon?  It kind of reminds me of 
SW:RotJ, where the Emperor tried to goad Luke into using his saber 
to strike him down, knowing that if Luke gave in and did it, he 
would be taking a decisive step towards the Dark Side.

MC