Harry's Use of Cruciatus curse and why no one noticed

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 109949

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor" 
<kempermentor at y...> wrote:
> Cory wrote:
> Another thing that bothered me almost as much, however, was how 
come 
> his use of Cruciatus went so unnoticed by everyone?  The Ministry 
> seems to know what Harry is doing 24/7; he was threatened with 
> expulsion from Hogwarts for dumping his aunt's pudding in the 
floor, 
> casting a Patronus to defend himself, and borrowing a flying 
> car...but he casts an Unforgivable Curse inside the Ministry 
building 
> and no one cares?
>  
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kemper thinks:
> Those incidents occur during summer holidays.  Maybe the Deparment 
> that's in charge of monitoring magic of the underage takes a well 
> deserved rest during the school year, focusing mostly on the antics 
> of those witches and wizards aged 11 and younger.

Geoff:
Back in March, a similar discussion occurred and, in message 94642, I 
wrote:

"The thought which occurs to me is that if the Ministry was monitoring
what was going on in their building (when they should have been
riding over the hill to the rescue?) was whether they could
distinguish who was throwing each spell. The air was thick with
jinxes and spells and the young people themselves had used a lot of
them: they all used a Reducto spell at the same moment, Hermione used
Stupefy, Colloportus, Accio and Silencio, Neville used Expelliarmus
and Stupefy while Harry used Stupefy, Petrificus Totalis,
Colloportus, Diffindo, Protego, Wingardium Leviosa, Crucio and I may
have missed some... Several of these were used more than once, so
there was a lot of underage wizardry performed within a very short
time scale not to mention that performed by the adults."