Crouch!Moody and the Unforgiveable Curses

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 96438

I (vmonte) wrote:
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


vmonte responds:
Thanks for the link Carol. I agree with your posts. 

Do you think that the Dementors were once wizards that lost their 
souls through dark magic? 
** Does anyone have any theories as to what these creatures are? ** 
As I mentioned before I don't see these creatures procreating like 
other species... There is also something human about their skeletal 
form.