Motivations for Joining DEs (Was: Bullying)

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 141156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at t...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> a_svirn:
> > Really? Well, then, Imperius can be used for good uses too. In 
fact, 
> > even Aveda Kedavra can be used for good uses, depends on what you 
> > define as "good".
> 
> Geoff:
> I'd be interested for you to expand on that observation.... 
> 
> Taking Imperius as an example, I can't see that the ability to 
force a 
> person to do what /you/ want is a worthy talent.

While Crucio or the killing curse are probably more purely dark, I 
can see lots of uses for the imperious curse.  how about the use of 
the curse in mental health work, i.e. stop cutting yourself or stop 
starving yourself.  I would think that you could use the curse to 
condition people away from bad habits or towards good habits pretty 
easily. While the magical world may not have the psychological 
understanding to fully use the imperious curse, I bet an interprising 
muggle could think of all sorts of benign uses for it.

phoenixgod2000