Harry using Crucio -- my two cents

[seriousschwartz]

No: HPFGUIDX 174215

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Christine Maupin
<keywestdaze at ...> wrote:
>
> I have a general remark about Harry using Crucio, not one directed
at any one comment.
> 
> <snip>
>he had just learned from Neville how cruelly the Carrows had treated
the students (students who were Harry's friends -- friends who had
tried to carry on traditions he started, friends who in doing so
displayed not only courage but loyalty to Harry and suffered because
of it), he remembers the Carrows from the night Dumbledore died and
how blood thirsty they were, Voldemort is on his way so the "clock is
ticking," he still has to find the diadem, and his very presence at
Hogwarts is about to begin a battle that will decide everything.  Even
under normal circumstances I think that Harry would have considered a
cruel Death Eater (dare I use the word scum) spitting in the face of
his regal teacher the biggest insult possible -- and therefore worse
than any words or curse Carrow could have used instead.  So, given the
overall situation, Harry snapped for a moment...
> 
<snip> 

seriousschwartz:

Thanks for your perspective. I agree with you and have been weighing
whether to add my thoughts to this thread. I want to point out that
Harry was under the invisibility cloak during McGonagall/Amycus
exchange. She was completely shocked to see him there at all. She was
processing Harry's presence in the Ravenclaw common room of all places
when he told her Voldemort was on his way. Also, he wasn't a student
anymore, so she couldn't exactly give him detention.

I need to add that I am one of those people who will take abuse from
people and shrug it off, but if someone I love is hurt or
disrespected, I want to rip the offender's face off and shove it down
his throat. I am much more likely to become extremely aggressive in
defense of someone else, but not myself. So, I guess I'm saying that I
completely understood Harry's motivation there. Also, I understand
that Rowling can't address every single action in the book. We have
seen that Harry struggles with his dark side. I was surprised at first
that he used it, but not disappointed. On the heels of all that he had
been though to that point, I can see him saying to himself, "Enough is
enough!"