OOP: Harry and violence (spoilers)

[vesania_aeterno]

No: HPFGUIDX 65969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scaryfairymary" 
<scaryfairymary at h...> wrote:
>>    I'm not entirely sure why it came as a shock to people either. 
If I remember correctly, Harry had once said that Sirius desrved the 
dementors' kiss before he was aware of his innocence.  IMO, the kiss 
from a dementor is a far bigger punishment than a cruciatus curse.  
There was also a moment in the shrieking shack with Sirius, when 
Harry mentioned that for the first time in his life he wanted his 
wand to harm someone as opposed to merely protect himself.<<

I have no idea why it came as a shock to anyone as well. Harry's 
reaction to anger is violence or imagined violence. Such as when he 
blows up Aunt Marge in Prisoner of Azkaban or your example above. In 
Goblet of Fire he spends a potions' class wishing he could curse 
Severus Snape with Cruciatus so that the man would be twitching on 
his back just like the spider in Faux!Moody's class. 

If anything, I'm surprised it didn't work better. Harry does have 
something of a mean streak, which could easily become sadistic (if it 
can't be classified as such already). I'm putting that up to it being 
his very first time casting that curse (perhaps that's part of the 
reason it was such a shock, the fact he managed to cast it correctly 
on his first try?)

- Andrea.