Fly on the wall commentator

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174962

 
> > "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.
> 

colebiancardi:

OotP US hardcover edition p 843

DD speaking
"He did not know that you have 'power the Dark Lord knows not' --"
"But I don't!"  said Harry in a strangled voice.  "I haven't any
powers he hasn't got, I couldn't fight the way he did tonight, I can't
possess people or -- or kill them --"

earlier in the book:

p 810

Bellatrix:
"Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy?"  she yelled.
 She had abandoned her baby voice now.  "You need to mean them,
Potter!  You need to really want to cause pain - to enjoy it -
righteous anger won't hurt me for long"


So, based on OotP, JKR's writings WERE pointing, imho, to the fact
that Harry would never, ever cast an Unforgivable Curse because *he
didn't have it in him* - he would *never* want to cause pain and enjoy
the pain on those that he inflicted it upon.

Of course, DH's changed all that.  Obviously, Harry enjoys giving pain
- something that is distressing.

But that is what those of us who are debating this - the
Unforgivable's - are bringing up - CANON statements in the books.  Not
a figment of our imaginations or that we are reading another work of
fiction under the guise of the Harry Potter books

colebiancardi