[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP- Harry out of character-Too many holes- - **Spoilers**

[Drusilla Malfoy]

No: HPFGUIDX 63618


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Emily S. Henning 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:40 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: OOP- Harry out of character-Too many holes- - **Spoilers**


  --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "angelstar31490" 
  <angelstar31490 at y...> wrote:
  > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "shaggy6603" 
  > <shanebarnes603 at h...> wrote:
  > > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
  > > <hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
  > > > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "shaggy6603" 
  > > > <shanebarnes603 at h...> wrote:
  > > > s
  > > > p
  > > > o
  > > > i
  > > > l
  > > > e
  > > > r
  > > > s
  > > > p
  > > > a
  > > > c
  > > > e 
  > > > > 
  > > 
  > > "shaggy6603" wrote:
  > > > > Shouldn't someone be even just a tiny bit concerned that 
  Harry 
  > > has used an unforgivable curse?  
  > > 
  > > "hickengruendler":
  > > > Well, IMO he didn't really use the curse. He just spoke the 
  > words, 
  > > > but it didn't have the "right" result. It's just like 
  > > saying "Accio" without concentrating enough on the object you 
  want 
  > > to have summoned. And after this, Bellatrix Lestrange said, that 
  > it 
  > > didn't work, because Harry deep down didn't really want it, or 
  > something 
  > > like this. So something prevent Harry from really wanting to 
  > torture 
  > > Mrs. Lestrange, although she might have deserved it. >>>>>
  > > 
  > > 
  > > Well it didn't work very well, but it definately workedenough to 
  > be 
  > > a "real spell" because Lestrange screamed, though she recovered 
  > > quickly.
  > > 
  > > "shaggy6603"
  > 


  > 
  > Doesn't really make a lot of sense. Harry Potter of all people 
  using 
  > the Crutacious curse. And you get time in Azkaban for it, but no 
  one 
  > really seems to notice.


  I think that,given the circumstances, Harry's use of the Cruciatus 
  curse is not going to be punished, nor is it out of character. Bella 
  had just killed Sirius, and Harry was trying to avenge that death. 
  Sirius was the nearest thing to a parent Harry had known, and she had 
  stolen that from him. (*sob*) 
  With all the fighting going on in the DoM, it's unlikely that Harry 
  would be punished, especially since he was fighting a DE. 
  I'm glad it didn't work though, it shows that Harry is still learning 
  and that even in his hatred, he is not evil enough to be like a DE.

  **Emily**



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  I found it very disturbing that Harry acually used the Cruciatus curse. He will probably get away with it because the only one who witnessed it, was Bellatrix herself and who would believe her? 

  I don't think that it was out of character either. Already in POA I remember the scene when Harry still thought Sirius had killed his parents and he stood before him defenceless. Then I remember Harry thinking that he wanted a wand right now, not to defend himself but to attack...to kill. There was a second instance in GOF, where Harry was angry enough to be able to kill. In OOTP he has been boiling with rage underneath all the time. I think it was just natural for him to let it out on a woman who had just killed the only man who could ever have given Harry a home and a family where he would have felt loved and accepted.

  Drusilla
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