Harry using Crucio

[Edis]

No: HPFGUIDX 175728

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at ...> 
wrote:
> From the live chat:
> "Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio 

I think there is an overall dramatic point here. Harry has tried to 
use certain Unforgivable Curses before and has failed because his 
powers were undeveloped. Now he uses Crucio - and with complete 
success. Can anyone doubt that he could use the Avadra Kedavra if he 
chose to do so? 

There can be no doubt about his full magical powers after 
the 'Crucio casting' scene.

Yet Harry chooses not to kill but instead to use his trademark 
expelliarmus when he is truly at the personal extremity in 
confrontation with Voldemort. Expelliarmus - the 
trademark 'juvenile' spell he was criticised for using after the 
battle of the escape from Privet Drive.

It is part of a theme. Harry is willing to die for a cause but not 
to kill. 

The Crucio scene underlines that this is a choice not a magical 
incompetence. Jo needed to make this point somehow for dramatic 
clarity and this is how she did it.

Edis