Imperius Resistance and Occlumency was Harry's anger (was Re: Draco's anger.)

eggplant9998 eggplant9998 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 18 17:17:42 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 122288


Pippin wrote:

> how do we know Fake!Moody didn't 
> lift the curse himself? 

It's difficult to understand why the fake Moody would want to do 
that, and we know he didn't need to lift the curse, Harry could do 
it himself. Not long after this incident mighty Voldemort himself 
tried to put the Imperius Curse on Harry, he failed. Both the Dark 
Lord and his Death Eaters seemed surprised at this, it was probably 
the first time he failed at it.

> Why did Voldemort think he could 
> use Imperius on Harry? 

He knew the fake Moody couldn't do it but Voldemort fancies himself 
as the most powerful wizard who ever lived, I imagine he thought he 
could do better. And Voldemort was loosing face in front of his 
Death Eaters and was running out of options, he gave Harry an order, 
he wanted him to beg, but even the Cruciatus Curse couldn't make him 
do it, so he tried Imperius, and failed again.

> I believe in training the instructor 
> often wears more protective gear
> than the student 

I have never heard of that in my life, it is certainly not something 
likely to engender respect for the teacher.

> the student must learn to fight 
> back with everything he has 

Yes, and fighting back with everything he has was exactly what Harry 
was doing when he looked into the Pensive. If you find that your 
opponent has made a mistake, like being careless where you put your 
memories, then the warrior must exploit that mistake. And that is 
what Harry is really in training to become, a warrior. 

Eggplant



  







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