What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[eggplant9998]

No: HPFGUIDX 117012



"Julia" <jolka55 at p...> wrote:

> I think he had rights to do that, 
> even though didn't know how to 
> cast the spell.

It's true that Harry's Crucio curse didn't have its full power, but 
it wasn't a complete failure either. It was good enough to earn 
Bellatrix Lestrange's respect and make her scream; before that she 
had nothing but contempt for Harry and spoke in mock baby-talk to 
him, after Harry's Crucio she stopped that nonsense. I'll wager that 
the very first time he cast the Crucio curse even Voldemort found it 
wasn't as powerful as it should have been. Like everything else 
practice makes perfect. 

I hope that is just the start of a new direction in Harry's life, in 
future books I hope to see Harry do something REALLY controversial, 
not just saying something rude to a friend and apologizing five 
minutes later, or being late returning a library book, or be fined 
for overtime parking. I want death and destruction, I want blood, I 
want gore! I want to see Harry kill some bad guys in a rather 
gruesome way and not feel one bit guilty about it. 

Please understand, I am not a monster, if Harry were a real person I 
would not want any of that, I would always want him to do the right, 
just, kind, moral thing; regardless of how boring it is. But Harry 
is a fictional character so I don't give a damn about right and 
wrong or any of that stuff, I just want him to do things that are 
interesting.

Remember, Harry is now in a war, in a war good people have to do 
very bad things; and sometimes those good people even start to enjoy 
the killing. That's one of the things that makes war so horrible and 
I think it would be interesting to examine that unpleasant fact in 
fiction. 

Eggplant