What Dark Arts?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 136887

colebiancardi:

> I agree on the wishing that Rowling would tell us what is Dark Magic &
> what isn't.  I think the unforgivable curses can be called Dark Magic,
> as they are taught in the DADA class.  Horcruxes - DM.  Levicorpus -
> ??? Lupin didn't think it was, he said it was all the rage when he was
> a kid.  Maybe it is the intent.  I don't consider a love potion to be
> DM - just love-sick fools who can't get the partner they want.  I
> would classify that as SM - sick magic.

houyhnhnm:

Maybe it is any spell that results in "organ failure, impairment of
bodily function, or death".

Personally, I would consider occlumency to be a dark art, a sort of
horcruxmancy of the self.  Look what it's done to Snape.

It doesn't seem to be regarded that way in the respectable wizarding
world, however.  We know that Dumbledore is an occlumens, also Snape
and Bellatrix.  Are there any others? Are aurors taught occlumency? 
Would it be part of the curriculum for advanced DADA students?