Aiming Wand at Bellatrix Lestrange: CRUCIO!

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No: HPFGUIDX 79533

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evangelina839" 
<evangelina839 at y...> wrote:
> That's true, but since Aurors were allowed to use (and consequently 
capable of using) 
> the Unforgivables, I don't think it's all evil that makes one able 
to cast the spells. 
> Probably the Aurors could reach the right frame of mind by focusing 
on all the nasty 
> things the DEs had done, and building up some excessive hatred for 
them, though. 
> But, I don't feel comfortable thinking of Aurors as people who 
enjoy causing pain... so 
> I prefer to think enough skill and power could make the curses 
work. Just maybe not 
> quite as "well" as if cast by someone who was enjoying it. And I 
don't think Harry will 
> kill Voldemort with AK (or use any Unforgivable again for that 
matter), I'm not even 
> sure he'll end up killing him - supporting myself on the 
ambigousness of the word 
> "vanquish". But that's another discussion. :)
> evangelina

Laura:

It seems to me that what's unforgiveable about these curses is the 
inability of the victim to defend him/herself as well as their innate 
cruelty.  So they wouldn't be unforgiveable if the person using them 
was fighting against someone equally skilled-say, a DE-or was 
fighting for his/her life.  And actually, how likely is it that an 
Auror would use either Imperius or Crucio?  The only one a trained 
Auror (that is to say, not Harry) is likely to use is AK, and that 
only when there's no alternative.