Unforgivable Curses

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 95922

Just a thought on Crouch/Moody's demonstration of the Imperius Curse 
in class.

I looked up "curse" in the dictionary and it read "A prayer or 
invocation for harm or injury to come upon one."  

When he was using it in class, he was not intending harm or injury; 
he was using it as a demonstration.  Since it was not intending harm 
or injury, it no longer qualified as a curse, it was merely a spell, 
and therefore, was not unforgivable.  

Perhaps that's how Dumbledore got around the whole life sentance in 
Azkaban problem and asked Moody (he thought) to demonstrate them.  He 
may have wanted any who could resist it to be fully trained, 
especially Harry, and he was probably curious as to who would be able 
to resist it. 

Sort of like saying that it would be wrong to tell your child that 
she was stupid, ugly, and dressed funny, but it would be OK to say 
these things if you were role-playing and coaching her on how to 
stand up to bullies that might say those things.  Only in Harry's 
case, the difference could be fatal.

Ginger