Aiming Wand at Bellatrix Lestrange: CRUCIO!

[Renee Daniels]

No: HPFGUIDX 79567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" 
<msbeadsley at y...> 
> wrote:
> > "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Surely Harry will relate that incident with Belltrix to 
> > > someone in Book 6, and we will get to know even 
> > > more about casting unforgivable curses.   
>

Jen Said:
>
> Assuming Harry wouldn't willingly be talking to Percy, Fudge or 
> Umbridge about his fight with Bellatrix, then there are multiple 
> people he could safely discuss the incident with: Hermione, Ron, 
> Ginny, Dumbledore, perhaps Lupin or Arthur. He doesn't have a track 
> record of keeping secrets from R/H for very long(the contents of 
> the prophecy remain to be seen), 

Me:

But the realy 'evil' stuff Harry keeps from the rest of the trio - 
such as the Sorting Hat's other option.

> and DD has an uncanny ability to 
> encourage Harry to discuss his burdens (the sorting hat considering 
> him for Slytherin). All of the above people know about instances of 
> rule-breaking and/or law-breaking by Harry and haven't turned 
> traitor (yet anyway). So, I still believe there's a good chance
> Harry will confide the "crucio" to someone.  

Me:

In the past DD was regarded with warmth as a protector... and Harry 
only tells when he looks Dumbledore in the eye. At the end of OotP 
Harry's opion of DD has fallen off its pedestal and Harry can't look 
DD in the eye, both for fear of Mindreading and Voldie. This isn't a 
levitating pudding, a violation of the Secrecy Acts, or even self 
defence - this was an Unforgivable. A charm so heinous that only the 
truely evil cast it and using it gets you a life sentance in Azkaban. 

At the moment Harry doesn't really understand that the thing that 
makes the charm so awful is the intent needed to cast it correctly. 
He just knows that in the eyes of the wizarding world Crucio=Evil, 
and to some extent he probably believes it himself. That's why I dont 
think he'll ever tell unless he's backed into a corner. Nobody wants 
people they admire to know them at their worst. 

The only exception I see to this blanket of silence (now that Sirius 
is gone) is Luna Lovegood. She doen't see things through the same 
lenses the rest of the world does, and I think Harry's beginning to 
understand the implications of that...

~Calimora (Back from the Abyss)