How can LV win the war in three weeks

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 92977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Elihu Falk <falkelihu at y...> 
wrote:
> Neri:
>  
> All he has to do is get outside his hideout and imperio the first 
> wizard he meets in the street. Then he should give this wizard 
just 
> three directions:
> 
> 1. Be a good servant of the Dark Lord.
> 2. Go and imperio other wizards.
> 3. Give them these three directions.
> 
> Elihu's answer:
>  
> Can you really imperio someone to go and imperio others etc. 
forever? there might be a limited number of people you can imperio 
at a time.
>  
> An other problem with your theory: One might have to give detailed 
instructions to the imperio-ed person.
>  
> I don't think that is really possible.
> 
> 
> Elihu

Plus we know that even a fourteen year old wizard can learn to throw 
off the Imperius Curse after less than an hour of practice. Though I 
have often wondered how many witches and wizards were Imperio-ed 
during the last war, I never really thought that it was a large 
amount of people for a significant amount of time. (Just the thought 
of a large, slow walking, dead eyed, zombie army of wizards makes my 
skin crawl!) IMHO, LV might use the Imperius curse for a quick bit 
of Muggle torture (ie: put the curse on one of his non-followers and 
have that person commit a heinous crime for which LV now cannot be 
implicated) or things like that. Even some DE's used Imperious as a 
get outta Azkaban card. What the WW should be working on is a way to 
detect the prescence of the Imperius curse, which would be helpful 
in determining who did what of their own volition. 
Meri (who will be v. upset if the WW's war turns into some wierd, 
Night of the Living Dead parody)