Harry using Crucio

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No: HPFGUIDX 175729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Edis" <virpshas at ...> wrote:


Edis:
> 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.
> 

Julie H:
Ahhh, but he'd already proven his mastery of an 'unforgivable' by this time, having 
Imperio'd several characters during the Gringotts cup heist. Was the crucio scene really 
necessary to prove again that he could do an unforgivable curse? And if she needed to do 
that... why not do it in the heat of battle... or, say, in the RoR during the diadem incident, 
when stuff was happening fast and furious? (Not the case in the Ravenclaw Tower.)

Sorry, I still can't see how 'stupefy' or 'petrificus totalus' wouldn't have worked equally well 
in the Carrow incident, without the moral issues of torture raised by crucio....

Julie H, chicago