Unforgivable?
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Jun 1 08:30:17 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 153222
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mathias Forseti
> <mathias_forseti@> wrote:
> >
> > Alla:
> > >> Um, THAT is an incident that truly deserves investigation, because
> > Harry used an Unforgivable. <snip> <<
> >
> > BAW:
> > > Erm, when did Harry use an Unforgivable in that scuffle? As nasty
> > > as 'sectumsempra' is, it isn't an Unforgivable. <snip>
> >
> > Mathias:
> > I'd think that even an attempted use of a Unforgiveable should be
> > investigated, but the Sectumsempra isn't an Unforgiveable, its just
> > a curse.
> >
> Aussie:
> Using one of the four Unforgiveables, needs intent to harm. Or as the
> Moody in GOF pointed out "you could all get your wands out now and
> point them at me and say the words, and I doubt I'd get so much as a
> nosebleed." So even Harry's attempt to use an Unforgiveable while
> Snape escaped was not worthy of investigation.
Geoff:
I have previously pointed out in a couple of postings that, on the first
occasion that Harry attempted to use "Crucio" at the Department of
Mysteries, there were so many curses being used that the Ministry
would have been hard pressed to differentiate who had used them -
even if they were monitoring the event.
Again, after the events on the tower in HBP, there had been a great
deal of magical activity and it would have been difficult to analyse
who cast which spell.
Regarding Sectumsempra, since this appears to have been for Snape a
case of "it's my own invention" (to quote the White Knight) the spell
would have been an unknown one as far as the Ministry was concerned.
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