[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry using Crucio

[Vincent Maston]

No: HPFGUIDX 174129

muscatel1988 a écrit :
> 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.


Yeah, well, I think McGonagall is calm under pressure, but this does not
prevent her from being angry.
For a whole year, she had to watch, not beeing able to do a thing about
it, the Carrows torturing children and basically ruining the whole
school she devoted her life to.

She finally has the chance to get a little revenge, and I think I'd have
done the same. She did not even cruciated them a little bit, only
imperiused them. IMO, Imperio is an unforgivable curse only because the
danger a wrong wizard can provoke with it, not, like Crucio or AK,
because of a pain or death it induces. For all we know, Imperio is just
as painfull as laying in a nice bed.

The hell with morality. McGonagall is a woman, not a poster girl for
christian forgiveness.

If you want a nice little book full of nice people always beeing nice to
each other, I don't think that a series beginning with the murder of a
baby's parents right in front of him is the right choice.

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