Harry the Auror

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89221


>Del writes about Harry and the Crutacius Curse :
> 
> We're not talking about just hurting someone. We're talking about 
> *torturing* someone. That's why the Cruciatus is an Unforgivable. 
> Harry went through it, he knows what it does, and he still wanted 
to 
> apply it to another human being. That shows he's got no compassion 
> and no self-restraint. 

Actucally, he didn't really want to do it: the curse failed because, 
in Bellatrix's own words, you really have to mean them. Harry was 
angry, afraid, lost, and torn in half after watching the murder of 
the closest thing he ever had to a father, and with all that bearing 
down on him what is remarkable is not that he shouted out an 
unforgivable, but that he still didn't have enough desire to hurt 
Bellatrix to make the curse work. This, to me, says more about 
Harry's character than anything else. 
Meri (who had to jump in and defend Harry because she loves him and 
hopes he comes out of book 7 relatively unscathed)