Unforgivables (was: Re: WW Ethics...)

[guardianapcelt]

No: HPFGUIDX 58704

Well, after having so many fine people contradict me, I think it's 
high time I contradict myself :-D...I've been rereading CoS, and 
found this quote from Lockhart regarding Mrs. Norris' petrification 
"It was definitely a curse that killer her - probably the 
Transmogrifian Torture - I've seen it used many times, so unlucky I 
wasn't here there, I know the very countercurse..." (CoS, American 
Text page 141). So here we have a spell, not listed as an 
Unforgiveable, that A)Tortures and B)Kills. And as we all know, 
Lockhart is a big name dropper. He can tell you quite a bit about 
wizarding, just from stuff he's picked up by putting into his books, 
even though he's dismal at wizarding himself. I highly doubt he would 
have mentioned a Transmogrifian Torture, especially in front of 
Dumbledore, if there wasn't such a thing. He likely recognized the 
symptoms from something he'd been told by a wizard/witch whose story 
he had stolen for a book. - Joe S.