Harry enjoys causing pain? (was Re: Fly on the wall commentator

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 175336

Christy:

"This occurs four pages after Harry used the Cruciatus Curse on Carrow. If Harry
<i>enjoys</i> causing pain, I'm confident he would have raised his wand beneath
his Invisibility Cloak and used the curse against this man who he hates so much.
He doesn't do that though and he has the perfect opportunity...which proves to
me that his earlier use of the curse was an isolated incident, a momentary lapse
in judgment, an extreme reaction to the "straw that break the camel's back."
Yes, he meant it when he used the curse on Carrow, and yes he meant it to
punish; however, we do not see him use it again, even in a situation when we
should expect him to if it were to become a habit, if he enjoyed causing pain.
He knows he can successfully cast the spell, and chooses not to...In Harry's
case, Its a far leap from meaning it to enjoying it. "

Exactly.  And if anyone deserves to be Crucio-ed, it was Carrow, given what he
had been doing to the Hogwarts kids all year long, and what he was proposing to
do to the Ravenclaws.  Indeed, he got off lightly.  *I* would have brought him
back to consciousness and done it again.  And again.  And then I would have used
Levicorpus to drop him into the lake for the Giant Squid to eat.



Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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