Unforgivables.

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 172954

I have read multiple posts with people upset that the good guys were
casting unforgivables. Well, let us analyze this just a little bit.
Who named the unforgivables? The ministry. These are the folks who
have committed the vast majority of the wrongs in the wizarding world
for many years. Are they nice spells? No. Should there be a mandatory
life sentence for their use? Probably not. I think that anyone who
thinks that Harry and the folks on his side should stick to ministry
regulations better take a look at what that ministry made possible.

Anyone complaining about the use of "unforgivables" by the good side
needs to think about the other laws of the wizarding world that the
good side broke. Hmmm....Hermione existed. Ted Tonks existed. Remus
Lupin existed. Harry Potter stayed free.

My point is that legality and morality are two different things. The
unforgivables are called that because of legality, not morality. I
think JKR must just have been too damn subtle on that point. I got it
clear back in GOF. Hidden in the subtext of GOF is the fact that
legality and morality are often at odds with each other, and that it
is often difficult to discern which one is which. OOTP showed clearly
that legality must sometimes be tossed completely out the window for
morality's sake. (Hence my refusal to ever forgive Hermione for her
use of the term "Ministry approved" in HBP.)By the time Harry casts
the first UC in DH we know that laws are pointless at this point. The
situation is not one where laws and niceties can be observed, it is
one of survival. Harry doesn't sit and torture people with the
cruciatus curse, he uses it, rather effectively, to neutralize an
attacker. Overkill, maybe, but not unforgivable by a longshot. His
uses of the imperius curse in Gringott's are not for personal gain or
nefarious purposes. Hell, he doesn't want a damn thing but to get the
horcrux so that he can defeat the guy causing so much death and
destruction in the world. And people are going to attack over a goblin
and a death eater being forced to comply for a few minutes? I'm sorry,
but it seems that those people are the type that believe Rita
Skeeter's stuff over everything else in the books.

Charles, who hates the Ministry and their sodding laws.