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

[guardianapcelt]

No: HPFGUIDX 58848

Pickle Jimmy wrote:
 
> So, Lockhart goes off on one of his rants, and drops the first 
>spell 
> he thinks of that could kill a cat - it could just have easily been 
> Wingardium Leviosa (lift Mrs Norris 40 feet into the air and drop 
her 
> on her head) - just because a Spell/Charm/Jinx/Curse could be used 
in 
> some means to cause harm, does it make it automatically 
unforgivable? 
> 
> 

Me: Lockhart is seriously underestimated. The man may be a horrible 
wizard, but he managed to trick multiple powerful wizards and witches 
into telling him their stories. His problem is that he has become so 
full of himself that he actually thinks he can pull off the deeds he 
recorded in his works. But would he be dense enough to mention a 
nonexistant curse in front of Dumbledore as the source for a fairly 
substantial issue with Filtch's apparently dead cat? His employer, 
the man acknowledged as the most powerful sorceror in the world? 
That's a little too blatant an act of stupidity, even for him. Like 
as not he'd heard about the curse, knew the symptoms from second hand 
information, and was trying to impress everyone with his knowledge.