Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

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No: HPFGUIDX 118947


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charme" <dontask2much at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and being Imperioed can happen
> > to even the most trustworthy types and so isn't taken into
> > consideration.
> >
> 
> Ok, Kneasy, I'll bite. :)  WHO on the list do you suspect has been 
> Imperio'd?  I notice we all talk about AK's and Neville's parents being 
> Crucio'd, but we don't talk about who all could have been Imperio'd, and 
> that curse is referenced a good deal: part of a lesson w/ Fake!Moody, 
> performed several times on Harry himself plus Bode and Podmore, both 
> Ministry officials. Mulciber, a DE, is said to be a specialist in the curse.
> 

Ah! You noticed my attempt to insert a little doubt into the
mind of  the reader.

No; I don't believe that  any of them have been Imperioed - yet.
But I think one or more of them will be. And it will be one of
the youngsters.

I've mentioned it before, but it won't  hurt to bring it up again:
Crouch!Moody - the Unforgivables lesson. The readers were
mostly concentrating on how Harry was throwing of the Imperio
curse. But it showed something else, too.
Now how many noticed that a passing comment told us that 
there were some that were perhaps a little more vulnerable than
average - Ron, for example, skipping long after the lesson had 
finished - 
"Moody assured him the effects would wear off by lunchtime".
Oh, yes! A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

I've a great respect for JKR's sneakiness and she's got very good
at foreshadowing future events with unregarded little hints.
So it's on my little list of things to watch out for. 

"Vigilance! Constant Vigilance!

Kneasy