Requiescat in Pace: Unforgivables

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174608

> DG wrote:
> Harry doesn't use it as a form of torture; he uses it as a powerful
> immobilizing spell.
> 
><snip>
> 
> Call that what you want, but it isn't torture.
> 


colebiancardi:

Well, I call it torture. 

Harry shouted, "Crucio!"
The Death Eater was lifted off his feet.  He writhed through the air
like a drown man, thrashing and howling in pain, and then, with a
crunch and a shattering of glass, he smashed into the front of a
bookcase and crumpled, insensible, to the floor.
"I see what Bellatrix meant," said Harry, the blood thundering through
his brain, "you need to really mean it"
DH US ed p 593

words like writhed, drowning, thrashing, howling in pain, crumpled,
insensible -  JKR picked those words and it certainly sounds like
torture to me.

And look at Harry's physical symptons - the blood thundering thru his
brain.  He is pumped up - he was not *indifferent* or in control when
he cast this spell.  

Now Luna was able to immobilized Alecto without the torture - she used
a stunning spell, which knocked out Alecto without any pain or
sadistic features that the Crucio enables.

colebiancardi
(sure the DE's use these spells - but that doesn't make it right for
the Trio or the Order to use them either.  Wrong is wrong, imho)