[HPforGrownups] Re: The Evil of Voldemort; Lily's choice

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 146690

La Gatta Lucianese:
> Or perhaps to leave her alive and use her guilt over Harry's death 
> (and James' death too, in that he would have died for nothing) to 
> manipulate her into giving him something he wanted (information, the 
> prophecy orb, who knows). Granted he could have put an Imperius Curse 
> to control her, but speaking as the sometime victim of a master 
> manipulator and guilt-tripper, I think he would have found using her 
> guilt and her misery to make her do his will much more satisfying.

Bart:
	Or, taking it further, since it seems that powerful wizards can resist 
the Imperius Curse, the guilt would probably leave her more vulnerable 
to it, by making resistance a return to pain rather than normalcy. One 
would assume from the evidence we have seen that the less resistance the 
victim puts up to the Imperius Curse, the harder it is to tell that they 
are under it.

	Bart