Fly on the wall commentator

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 174958



> "colebiancardi" wrote:
> Canon through-out the first 6 books gave us
> > insight into "not all evil people are DH" and that there might be 
some
> > good Slytherians out there.  We saw the Unforgiveable Curses being
> > names as such and through out the series, Harry could not issue 
such a
> > curse because he never had it in him.  That is not a parallel HP
> > series;  those are the writings of JKR.
>
 
> Lisa:
> 
> But that's just it -- it's NOT the writings of JKR.  JKR had Hary 
> unable to do the Unforgiveable Curses before because he didn't MEAN 
> them ("You have to MEAN them, Potter!"), not because he "never had 
it 
> in him."  Once he MEANT them, he could do them.  Some see that as 
an 
> inconsistency in canon -- but not I.


Potioncat:
Jumping in against her better judgement. In this case, Lisa has 
offered a bit of canon to oppose Colebiancardi's statement. There's 
now the chance to discuss the issue with canon, citing pages and 
chapters. 

To be told, as some of us have, that our ideas are wrong because we 
had a "parallel HP series" playing in our heads, or that we had read 
too much fan-fic---well, that's just an insult. Insults won't get us 
anywhere, canon will.

Potioncat, who hasn't read all the posts, but has a general idea of 
what's going on.....or not.