Unforgivable Curses

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 96408

Ginger wrote:
> 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

Or--forgive me, Ginger!--sort of like teaching them what sex is by
demonstrating it on them so they'll learn how to defend themselves
against rape? The Imperius Curse is a violation of their minds and
requires the person casting the spell to intend to manipulate them, to
make them do things they don't want to do. I don't think their parents
would want that, and I think that such a spell either corrupts the
caster or requires him to be already corrupted. (*If* I'm right on the
second point, DD would not have wanted "Moody" to cast those spells
for his own sake as much as that of the students.)

As I've said, I very much doubt that the real Moody would have made
such a request of Dumbledore or that DD would have granted it, much
less made the request himself of the supposed Moody. (He *may* have
authorized the use of the Unforgiveables on the spiders, but I'm not
convinced even of that.) I think Moody was lying and that if DD heard
about the DADA lesson after the fact, it was a hint (along with
turning Draco into a ferret and the events of the night that Snape's
office was broken into, which Snape surely reported) that something
was not quite right about the supposed Alastor Moody.

Carol, who hopes she hasn't hasn't offended Ginger or anyone else with
her analogy