Imperius

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 108098

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amey Chinchorkar" 
<sherlockholme_ac at r...> wrote:

> -	Pippin
> -	Supposing you *can* put Imperius on an invisible person,
> -	(remember eye contact is important ), you wouldn't know it 
had -	taken. "...watch his eyes, that's where you see it-" GoF 
ch14.
> 
> Amey:
> We don't have any canon saying eye contact is necessary for 
Imperius, the quote you mention is Moody telling the class to 
look at the determination (?) in Harry's eyes when he is fighting 
the curse. And if eye contact was important, how would Crouch Jr 
put Imperius on Krum in the Maze and make him put Crucio on 
Cedric?<

Pippin: 

We have Hermione saying eye contact is essential for jinxes in 
Book One.  There are some charms that work without eye 
contact, such as Accio, but they seem to be the exception. Harry 
tosses Impedimenta over his shoulder and hears a yelp as he 
escapes from the graveyard, but we don't know whether the 
curse connected  with its target or somebody got burned by a  
miss. 

Fake!Moody has his magical eye "..I was patrolling around [the 
maze], able to see through the outer hedges, able to curse many 
obstacles out  of your way. I Stunned Fleur Delacour as she 
passed. I put the Imperius curse on Krum so that he would finish 
Diggory."

It wouldn't matter whether  the curse-user is supposed to 
look for  the presence or absence of determination....without 
seeing the victims eyes, you wouldn't know whether he was 
resisting. If he was, he could pretend to obey, and then double 
cross you. Podmore, for example, could have arranged to hand 
over a fake prophecy orb in order to ambush the DE's who were 
supposed to receive it--a classic sting.

Pippin