Unforgivables - from a different angle

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 174485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Carol, just working out a canon-based esplanation for Harry's 
> Crucio that I like better than "Harry's human," but not excusing 
> him or blaming the soul bit for a bad choice on Harry's part

(Re also many, many other preceding posts on the justification for 
Harry's Crucio.)

Mus: You certainly make a good case here, but I still have a major 
problem with the Unforgivables and the damage they do to the story, 
namely McGonagall's use of one on a barely conscious man for no 
other purpose than to retrieve his wand from just across the room 
and tie him up with his Stunned sister.

There's a number of things that could explain away Harry's UCs, and 
they have been in several threads by many posters - 
NeedsMustWhenTheDevilDrives, using Malfoy's wand, pure adrenalin, 
Voldmort's malign influence.  But I honestly can't see any 
justification for McGonagall's action.   She's not in danger, she's 
in the company of two people who have just shown that they can 
disable an opponent, but she uses a UC simply, it would seem, to 
tidy the place up a bit.  This was, for me, even more horrifying 
than Harry's action - this, by the woman who was inventive enough to 
make even the furniture fight the good fight.  She has powers, and 
she's not too - well - *noble* to use them.

Mus, who is too appalled to sign off cleverly.