Imperius Curse

[cgbrennan2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 57462

In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ladi lyndi <ladilyndi at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- Ali wrote:
> > > Although it would seem that Harry was 
> > > unusual in being able to throw off the curse,
> > Ron is singled out as 
> > > having difficulties with it. I believe that
> > this inability to resist 
> > > either the Veela or the Imperius curse will
> > be significant later.
> 
> 
> Lynn:
> 
> I don't see that Ron was singled out as having
> difficulties with it.  It seems many in the the
> class couldn't resist it either, all those that
> came before Harry.  What's said is the Ron had
> much more difficulty than Harry.  (GoF, p. 205,
> UK)  Therefore, Ron may have done better than
> others in the class, just not as good as Harry. 
> I, too, find it interesting that Hermione isn't
> mentioned with relation to how well she was able
> to deal with it.
> 
> Lynn
> 

Actually, it looks like none of them could do what Harry could..."Not 
one of them seemed to be able to fight off the curse, and each of 
them recovered only when Moody had removed it."--- p.231  So, it 
doesn't look like Hermione faired much better that the rest of them.

Colleen