Harry and the Crucio. W as: Bellatrix and the Crucio

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94972

Kneasy wrote:
> <snip> Remember that  Crouch!Moody tells Harry's  class that they
are  being shown the Forbidden Curses early - that normally they would
have to wait until  their sixth year before they saw them
demonstrated. This
> means that it was a part of the curriculum - does that make the
> teacher that performs the demonstration a sadist?

Carol:
Well, unquestionably, Crouch!Moody was a sadist. He enjoyed turning
Draco into a bouncing ferret and had no pity for the tortured spiders
or poor Neville, who was watching. More important, he had helped to
torture the Longbottoms into insanity and had no qualms about
Imperioing Krum to Crucio the innocent Cedric.

That aside, do we really *know* that the students would see the
Unforgiveable Curses demonstrated in their sixth year, much less that
they would actually be Imperio'd--a teacher performing an illegal and
Unforgiveable Curse on his own students? I for one think that
Crouch!Moody was taking advantage of his cover as a supposed ex-auror,
and of Dumbledore's trust, to do what the real Moody would not have
done. I wonder what the parents would have thought if the students had
reported over the summer that a teacher had Imperio'd them. I think DD
would have had a flock or owls demending that teacher's resignation.

Carol