Crouch!Moody and the Unforgiveable Curses

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 96402

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> Sea Change wrote:
> 
> It seems very unlikely to me that DD was unaware of this unusual
> teaching method after the first classful, whether or not it was
> pre-approved. I got the impression that DD merely suspected and not
> knew Evil!Moody based on the ending dialogue of this book. If the UCs
> are truly as awful to the soul as Carol supposes, then I personally
> wouldn't be merely 'suspecting'.
> 
> vmonte responds:
> I thought I was the one who mentioned that the Unforgivable Curses 
> might actually do damage to the person who uses them (see posts 
> 95305, 95382). Did Carol also write this? Can you lead me to her 
> post? I find this topic interesting.  Thanks

Carol:
I've written volumes on this topic, but since my posts tend to be
long, you may have missed the parts where I've discussed what appears
to be the corrupting influence of those curses on the soul of the
caster. One of my arguments is the state of mind that our two experts,
Bella and Barty Jr., have described as necessary to cast the curses.
In the case of Crucio, you must desire to inflict excruciating pain
that lasts as long as you choose to sustain it. (Bella says that you
must *enjoy* inflicting pain, as she all too obviously does.) Another
of my arguments is the effect of these curses on the people we know to
have cast them, in particular the Crouches. We see all too clearly the
moral degeneration of Crouch Sr. when he begins to use evil to fight
evil and of the intelligent, unloved boy who helped to Crucio the
Longbottoms and ended up murdering his own father, like Voldemort
before him. (BTW, Harry failed to cast a Crucio because he couldn't
summon the evil will necessary to perform it properly. Had he
succeeded, both he and the WW would, in my view, be doomed.)

Here's a link to one of my fairly recent posts on the topic:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/95285

You can find many others if you have the time and patience to
repeatedly type "Carol Unforgiveable" into the Search Engine. Or you
can go up thread for any post on the topic and find my take on it.

Carol