Harry using Crucio.
colebiancardi
muellem at bc.edu
Thu Aug 2 17:50:39 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 174284
> "sneeboy2" <sneeboy2@> wrote:
>
> > My beef is with the author, not the
> > fictional hero. She has spent a good
> > bit of ink establishing that the
> > "unforgivable" curses are just that,
> > that only the bad guys use them,
>
> Well that is certainly untrue, Harry first used an Unforgivable way
> back in book 5, and I don't believe JKR meant for her readers to think
> of Harry as a bad guy since then. I
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colebiancardi:
but Harry failed when he first used one back in book 5 - which led the
readers to believe that Harry was too *good* to ever use an
Unforgivable Curse and only the scum of the earth would use these
underhanded type of curses.
there is more than one way to defeat the enemy - going down to their
level should not be one of them.
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