help with JKR quote was Re: Lily and Tuney and Sev, Oh My

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 176477

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote: 
> Curses:
> Reserved for the worst kinds of dark magic.

Mus responds:

Oh dear.  I've just been to the Lexicon (http://www.hp-
lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_c.html).

The following spells are known as curses. 

Babbling Curse 
Blasting Curse *
Body-Bind Curse *
Cruciatus Curse  *
Curse of the Bogies 
Entrail-Expelling Curse 
Fiendfyre 
Flagrante Curse 
Gemino Curse 
Impediment Curse *
Imperius Curse *
Jelly-Fingers curse 
Killing Curse 
Leg-Locker Curse 
Reductor Curse *
Sponge-Knees Curse 
Thief's Curse 
Unforgivable Curses (*)

Those I've marked with * are used by White Hats, almost always with 
success (Harry's Reductor in GoF doesn't work).  If JKR is to be 
taken at her word, then we've seen Dark Magic being liberally used 
right through the series.  If she's not, then her answer makes little 
sense (nd it's not as if she gave it in an absent-minded moment in an 
interview.  

I wish I was able to see a coherent moral universe in her work.  I 
can't, any more.

Mus.