Harry the Auror

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89242

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:

Del :
> 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. I went through some bad things, and I sure 
> sometimes wish I could make my tormentors go through what I 
> experienced, but I wouldn't actually do it, because I know it's 
plain 
> WRONG. You don't make the world a better place by doing bad things. 
> And you can't make yourself feel better by hurting others. Harry 
> obviously still hasn't learned that.

Geoff:
Come off it, Del. If Harry had no compassion or self-restraint, he 
would have tried to go for "Avada Kedavra". He was boiling mad; he 
wanted to get back in some way at Bellatrix but did he really, 
really, deep down want to kill her? Maybe he said so but have you 
never been so cross that you could do someone a serious damage or 
smash up the crockery......

I can recall, being a red head in my youth (aha, a Weasley cousin), 
that in my mid-teens, I possessed a very fiery temper and lived on a 
short fuse much of the time - my equivalent of an OOTP time I 
suppose. I would often do something in the height of temper and then 
realise when I had cooled off that it was perhaps unfair, plain 
stupid or dangerous.

"When I became a man I put away childish things..." including 
hopefully childish emotional and uncontrolled outbursts.