Harry using Crucio

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 174125

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> 
wrote:
> Further, how little reaction it illicited either from Harry 
> himself or from McGonagall, who actually called an Unforgivable 
> Curse "gallant", and then followed on with a UC of her own. It 
> would have done the scene wonders for the good guys to display at 
> least a little moral distaste for the actions they felt forced to 
> perform. 
> The lack of any sort of moral discomfiture was probably the most 
> disturbing part of the incident.

Mus responds: This reader might, at a pinch, be able to accept 
AdrenalinFuelled!Harry acting in the heat of the moment, but the use 
of Imperio by McGonagall immediately after is what makes this 
incident deeply questionable.  She uses Imperio for no other reason 
than to disarm the Carrows and make them easier to tie up. [DH, UK: 
Ch30, 478]

McGonagall is calm under pressure, we know that.  Accio, 
Expelliarmus and Petrificus Totalus would have had exactly the same 
effect, and have been used for similar purposes throughout the six 
preceding books, and Luna has just ensured that Alecto's going 
nowhere by simply Stunning her.

I've posted before that I was worried about the moral arc of the 
series in HBP.  This incident in The Ravenclaw commonroom convinced 
me, to my horror, that it was now in shreds.

Mus, sorrowing.