The Imperius Virus Again

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> Neri:
> Almost two years ago I suggested here that Voldy could easily win 
> the war by using my invention, a doomsday weapon I called the 
> Imperius Virus (see 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/92918
> and ensuing thread for details). The principal behind the Imperius
> Virus is very simple: all Voldy has to do is imperio one wizard and
> give him these three directions:
> 
> 1. Be a good servant of the Dark Lord.
> 2. Go and imperio other wizards.
> 3. Give them these three directions.
<huge massive snip of Neri's very thoughtful post>

Christina:

The only problem with this is the way we see the Imperius Curse
demonstrated in GoF.  IIRC, Harry hears *specific* instructions in his
head in the form of Moody's actual voice (ie, "Jump on the table-
Jump! Now!") telling him what to do.  I'm not sure "Be a good servant
of the Dark Lord" would work because who determines what that is? 
Each Imperiused wizard would need to be given real instructions (ie,
"Go blow up a bridge," "Kill so-and-so Auror," etc).  There needs to
be an objective for the Imperiused person to follow.  Someone would
have to be at the end of the chain, pulling the strings- the original
wizard that cast the first Imperio Curse.  This is a pickle, because
the original wizard would have to pass down instructions through a
long line of people, saying something like, "Wizard A, go tell Wizard
B to tell Wizard C to tell Wizard D to do such-and-such a task."

Also, LV doesn't even need to Imperius large amounts of people to win
the war- just the people he is fighting, the Aurors and the Order.  No
mass army rose up against him in the first war.  The Order is
presented to us as a Resistance movement than an actual party fighting
in battle.  Lupin comments in OotP that the Death Eaters outnumbered
the Order "twenty to one" and were picking them off individually. 
While the actual numbers concerning the Death Eaters and Order members
are unknown, we can assume that there weren't *that* many people
opposing LV; certainly not every witch or wizard.  People might have
disagreed with LV, but there will always be people that disagree with
those in power.  Voldemort was easily keeping those people in check
using fear (anyone who did speak out mysteriously "disappeared"). 
Even in the second war, people refused to believe that any threat had
returned whatsoever.  The instructions for a limited use of the
Imperius Curse on the Aurors/Order members would be much simpler-

1.  Go find a fellow Order member/Auror.
2.  Imperius them and give them these three instructions
3.  Go lie in a ditch/hide in your basement/jump off a building

I doubt that even a plan like this one would work because we know that
it is possible to fight the Imperius Curse.  Even though we've seen
some evidence of advanced magical skill on Harry's part (the
Patronus), he is still just a kid and is able to throw off the
Imperius Curse.  I wouldn't be surprised if Aurors were taught
techniques to prevent themselves from being Imperiused; otherwise, all
LV would have had to have done was Imperius one Auror and order them
to walk into Auror headquarters and start firing off curses.

Christina