Harry the Auror

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 89222

Meri wrote about Harry and the Cruciatus Curse :

> 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)

Del answers :

Argh, Meri, how shall I put it without hurting you ;-) ?
OK, let's agree to disagree then. I'm personally convinced that Harry 
meant the curse, he meant to hurt Bella, he was even looking forward 
to it, he was waiting for her to fall and scream in pain. And I think 
the only reason he failed is that he simply didn't know how to do it. 
Just like you have to focus on your happy memories to make the 
Patronus Charm work, you have to focus on your anger and desire to 
hurt to make the Cruciatus curse work. And Harry doesn't know how to 
do it. Yet.

Del