Voldemort's animus toward the Potters/the prophecy (was Replay)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86036


>Arcum wrote: 
> Actually, I think Dumbledore couldn't AK Tom, for reasons due to the
> very nature of an Unforgivable curse. Per Bella, a few pages before
> their duel, we are told this:
> 
> "Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you boy?... You need
> to *mean* them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain - to
> enjoy it - righteous anger won't hurt me for long -"
> 
> Note that she is talking about the whole category of Unforgivables,
> not just Crucio. By extension, it seems reasonable to assume that to
> AK  someone you need to really want the other person to die, and 
> not just because you are justifiably angry at them. He'd need the
> type of hate and loathing where he wouId actually *enjoy* his
> death, and I don't really see that coming from Dumbledore. 
<snip>

I agree with you, and that's the reason I think that Harry can't AK
Voldemort or torture him with a Cruciatus curse or control him with an
Imperius curse: Because Harry isn't evil and will never enjoy causing
pain, even to Voldemort. If he reaches that level of hatred, he will
be indistinguishable from Young Tom Riddle except in his choice of
targets. And of course the "brother wands" would interfere with an
unforgiveable curse as well--and if the curses are legalized so that
the good guys can use them without penalty, the WW will dissolve into
anarchy. Harry will have to find some other way to destroy Voldemort,
perhaps involving love, the force that Voldemort can never understand,
or a way to make LV's hatred backfire ("Protego"?).

Carol