Motivations for Joining DEs (Was: Bullying)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 141187

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ch3ed" <ch3ed at y...> wrote:
> > Phoenixgod2000: 
> 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.  
> <snip>
> 
> 
> CH3ed:
>  But that would be just a bandage treatment without actually 
> treating the cause of the mental conditions, wouldn't it? I don't
> know if that is worth the side effects. It seems a person under the 
> imperious curse is in a forced state of detached bliss or something 
> (from the description of what HP felt when the fake Moody did imperio 
> on him in book IV). And when a person fights it he could look quite 
> mad like Crouch, Sr when HP & Krum found him in the forest. 


Ceridwen:
Stopping self-injurious behaviors won't fix the root cause, but it will 
stop the behaviors so the actual treatments can begin or continue.  
Worse would be a patient who is violent.  Imperius could calm that 
behavior so the medical staff can at least give him or her dinner 
without being in physical danger, not to mention the therapists who 
will need to work with that person on a regular basis for an hour or 
more at a time.

But, I was thinking that in the WW, since they have already been 
allowed, at least at one time, to use Unforgiveables, that Imperius 
could keep a prisoner or group of prisoners from escaping while the 
rest of a gang was being rounded up, and keep them from escaping while 
in detention before trial.  Other, lesser spells could be used, sure.  
But in extreme cases, Imperius might be the best way to go in this line 
of work.

Ceridwen.