LV Inmortality (plus Predicting the future)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 116423


Kim wrote:
> > I think Carol makes a good point, that since DD won't use an
> Unforgiveable curse himself, he'd hardly expect Harry to use one,
even to vanquish the Dark Lord. I think JKR definitely has something
else up her sleeve as to how LV will meet his end. <
> 
> 
> Distaiyi responded:
> 
> I think this is an excellent point and I just want to point out that
> the countrary has been use as a literary device a number of other
> times. <snip>
> 
> Now in Hogwarts they teach not to use the unforgiveable (sp?, sorry
> tired) curses. But if a child, even a well trained child were to use
> one, well eventually they would get over it. Maybe getting Harry to
> the point where he can cast AK is exactly what Dumbledore wants?


Carol responds:
My original point was that the Unforgiveable Curses are evil and that
Dumbledore is too noble to use such weapons. To elaborate, they
require either hatred or cold indifference to human life, will, or
suffering to be cast correctly, which is why Harry failed when he
tried to Crucio. When an evil person casts them, he becomes even more
evil--irredeemable like Voldemort, Bellatrix, and Barty Jr. Even when
a person tries to use them for good, he is caught in his own net.
Barty Jr., who authorized the use of the Unforgiveable Curses on the
DEs, is Imperio'd and then Ak'd by the son he had tried to control
through the Imperius Curse.

Barty Sr. shows the futility of using such weapons. Evil can't destroy
evil; it only perpetuates the cycle. Dumbledore is too noble, and too
wise, to use such weapons, and it would be utter hypocrisy to expcet
Harry to use them. Remember what happened to Tom Riddle, who AK'd his
own father and grandparents when he was the same age Harry will be
when he fights the ultimate battle with Voldemort. Dumbledore can't
possibly want that fate for Harry, or any of the young wizards and
witches who will be on his side of the war. No matter how well-trained
the children are, IMO, nothing can prepare them to use weapons that
can only be mastered by someone with the will to do evil. There must
be another way, a way to defeat evil through good. It's the difference
between *Defence Against* the Dark Arts and the Dark Arts themselves.

Carol