Inferni (was Azkaban /was ways of the WW)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159608

> Nikkalmati:
>  
> ok, how do you impersonate an inferius?  Why would MF do that?   
Does anybody know what that is about?
>  


Tonks:
Very interesting question, which brings up even more questions.  We 
know that Dung is both a sneak-thief and a member of the Order. He 
must have been doing it for one of these reasons.  I wonder where 
and under what circumstances he was caught? He could have been just 
trying to scare someone into giving up their money or something. On 
the other hand if it involved his work for the Order this bit of 
information could be one of those throw away lines that really mean 
sometime that we need to explore. And there is also the possibility 
that he was trying to get IN to Azkaban to spy there.

I had assumed that Inferni were only in the cave, but I guess that 
they are not. Very creepy idea, even for an Auror, I tell you!  LV 
and the DE are using them, for what purpose? Is it just to terrorize 
and scare people or is there some other purpose? If Dung was working 
for the Order, what could he have been doing and why? Is it 
important to the rest of the story?

And back to the WOMBAT test.  Can Inferni talk?  I said that they 
can't.  I think we really need to know the correct answer to that 
question.  The Inferni in the cave were very creepy because Harry 
saw them come to life, but what if they are used, as some here have 
suggested, to impersonate themselves so that others don't know that 
they are dead?  If someone was killed and then the body was used for 
LV's end,  really, how is that all that much different that putting 
someone under Imperious?  I would think that unless they were a 
powerful wizard that could fight the Imperious, it would be better 
to use them while they were still alive.  Of course Inferni can not 
be killed, so that could be a reason to send them into a conflict 
where you thought a real person would be killed.

And thinking about all of this, making an Inferni is a violation of 
the human being in the worse possible way, other than splitting of 
the soul.  Every culture has respect for the dead, so to use their 
bodies in this way is a violation of the highest form, IMO.  Pure 
Evil.

Tonks_op