Crouch!Moody and the Unforgiveable Curses

[khilari2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 95869

Carol:
> If the curses are Unforgiveable, would DD authorize a trusted teacher 
> (the real Moody, as he thought) to risk imprisonment in Azkaban for 
> performing illegal curses, and possibly damage his soul by performing 
> Unforgiveable Curses? Look at the requirements for performing them--you 
> must desire to control another human being and deprive that person of 
> his or her free will. Even casting it once, for educational purposes, 
> would require that dangerous state of mind. And Moody would need to 
> cast it repeatedly, on every student in the school between fifth and 
> seventh year. 

I meant that it was possible that DD had authorised its use on the 
*spiders* and so, when he heard about a demonstration of the 
Unforgivables, did not realise that the demonstration he had ordered 
was going so much further than he intended that students were being 
demonstrated on. I'm sorry if I was unclear. I am open to the idea 
that DD might have intended the whole thing (hence my second point) 
but think it far more likely he would have been horrified to know 
the whole truth.

Khilari - who suspects she's still being vague, and that she really 
ought to stop hedging her bets.