Harry's Use of an Unforgivable Curse

[strawberryshaunie]

No: HPFGUIDX 96078

 Someone recently posted :
"Hmmm, then why did he choose the Cruciatus Curse? Avada 
Kedavra 
would
> have been safer for Harry (c.f. if someone more powerful 
than you 
was
> intent on killing you, and you had a gun, where would you 
shoot 
them:
> torso or leg?) But perhaps I'm being too clinical, 
perhaps Harry's
> revulsion at killing  prevented him trying AK, and so 
Crutiatus was 
all
> that was left. "

I wanted to point out that Harry would probably never even consider 
using Avada Kedavra, on *anyone*, because that's the very curse that 
killed both his parents. Why choose Crucio over AK? Same reason 
Neville would choose to use AK rather than Crucio (if he were in a 
similar situation), because he would be allowing himself to become 
the very thing he probably hates most; he'd be repeating the crimes 
of those who made his parents suffer, his life hell. Remember Crouch!
Moody's bit with the spiders? Remember Neville's reaction to Crucio, 
and Harry's to AK? I can't see them ever *using* the curse that 
ruined their lives, especially after they had been affected so deeply 
by witnessing it.