Harry using Crucio (was: Code of the Playground) And Other Stuff, Too

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 174681



Christy: "Yes, Harry. If my recollection is correct, when Harry is
placed under Imperio in GOF by the fake Moody in class and then again
by Voldemort in the graveyard, he feels a sense of peace that makes
him want to do what the person placing the curse wants him to do.
However, a little voice inside his head is telling him 'you don't
really want to do that' and it is that voice he listens to. He
obviously has an awareness that the curse is trying to affect him. So,
at the very least, someone who has the capability to resist the curse
has some degree of awareness of it being placed on him or her.

Do we have any reason not to believe that others under the curse feel
the same sensations Harry does (i.e., a sense of actually wanting to
surrender to the will of another)? None that I remember..."

We know the situations are different. Harry was able to resist
Imperius; if he had succumbed, he may not have been able to remember
what happened to him. We can't assume other people fully under the
Imperius curse would have remembered the experience. The question
isn't answered one way or the other based on Harry's experience here.

I believe it isn't hard to imagine that the Imperius curse could
affect its subjects different ways: "you will not remember what I have
commanded you to do" might be all it takes, or an Imperio and a
Confundus cast one after the other.

Jim Ferer