Bad Harry? OotP Spoiler

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, phoenixtears288 at c... wrote:

> I've been thinking about the scene where Harry and Bellatrix were 
>throwing curses at each other. Now, maybe I have to re-read it, but 
>Harry DID throw a Unspeakable Curse at Bellatrix. Why did he do it? 
>I started thinking about it. In this book, Harry is angry. However, 
>Sirius Died. And while he is at the Dursleys in Year 6, anger is 
>going to come up upon him. What I am saying is that Harry might be 
>turning evil. Why did he use the curse then? And with all that 
>anger... I'm sure that all of the men out there could say that they 
>didn't have weight of the world on their shoulders like Harry does. 
>I think Harry might be turning a tad-bit evil. 
>   
>  ~Paige Woods

Me:

I don't think that Harry will feel justified once he thinks about 
this; however, perhaps he may.....  My dad served in Vietnam and he 
came back with the attitude that death was a natural part of war, and 
the wizarding wolrd is most definitely at war.  "You sometimes have 
to do horrible things to keep from dying".  That said I don't agree 
with what Harry did; however, I do not think that he is becoming 
evil.  I think that he snaped under the weight of loosing the last 
family that he has (not counting the Dursleys that is) and was 
attempting to deal out a little well deserved capital punishment.  (I 
don't want to discuss capital punishment on the site.)  It is 
interesting to note that Bellatrix tells Harry that "righteous anger" 
is not sufficient to make 'crucio' work.  Therefore I submit, IMHO, 
that Harry was acting with a clear concious although not a clean mind.