Inferni (was Azkaban /was ways of the WW)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 159628

Tonks:
*(snip)*
> 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.

Ceridwen:
It's interesting that the singular, 'Inferius', sounds a lot 
like 'Imperius'.  Animating the corpse is very much like forcing 
someone to do one's bidding, though it is no longer a violation of 
that person's will, since the personality, soul and spirit are no 
longer left.

It would be frightening indeed to have a Dark wizard like Voldemort 
in charge of the re-animated corpse of someone dear, or someone in a 
position of authority, a dead Scrimgeour, for instance, as the living 
Crouch was under Imperius in GoF.  If they could talk, and if someone 
didn't know that person was dead, then it would be even worse, if the 
Inferi was someone trusted as well as dear.  The Inferi could lead 
unsuspecting people into traps, or lead them into accidentally giving 
information to LV.

Ceridwen.