Nature of Dark Magic

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 141261

>zgirnius:
>OK, the list so far, see above for justifications:
>
>1)The magic which restored Voldemort's body.
>2)The unforgivables
>3)Sectumsempra
>
>More Dark magic:
>4)Horcruxes. DD and Slughorn agree on this one.
>5)Possession. ...
>6)The magic which creates Infiri. ...
>7)Powerful curses such as that on the ring horcrux and the necklace 
that nearly kills Katie Bell ...
>
>That's all I can come up with...


>bboyminn:
>
>I would mostly agree with your list. By my point, my theory, is 
> that it is the nature of the creation that makes Dark Magic 'dark' 
> and not the nature of it's use. Also, we need to make a 
> distinction between 'Dark' with a capital 'D' and 'dark' with a 
> small 'd'.

Pat:

What can studying GP and all that was found belonging to the Blacks 
contribute here?  We have wartcap powder, which F/G are going to put 
to 'good' ;-) use, but they are using it for items for their joke 
shop, not to do anything that has been defined as 'Dark.'  And all 
the other items that Kreacher hid in his room: no real use was found 
for most of them, and yet Sirius wants to know how Harry can have 
missed that his family were 'dark' (I'm putting that with a 
small 'd' because we don't know of any real 'Dark' things they were 
involved in, with the exception of Regulus, and even he turned his 
back on Voldemort, possibly destroying a horcrux in the process.)  
The music box that made everyone feel sleepy and weepy until Ginny 
slammed it shut: I suppose that could have a 'dark' or 'Dark' use.  
There were snakes on nearly everything in the house, but even 
Parcelmouth has been spoken by good wizards as well as bad. . .is 
there more that I'm missing here?  I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts 
on the subject of everything found at Grimmauld Place.

Thanks - Pat