[HPforGrownups] Re: Unforgivables.

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 173150

> Charles, wondering why people are so dependent on legality to know
> right from wrong-and hoping it can be cured.

Magpie:
I don't think any of them are. Maybe I'm not following the thread 
clearly, but I don't see anybody making this argument, just your 
arguing against it. People are responding by talking about why they 
think the Unforgivables should be illegal based on morality, but I 
just really don't think anybody is worried about their legality.

-m






Sherry:

Thanks, magpie.  I never even thought about the so-called legality or
illegality of Harry doing Cruciatus.  I thought about exactly what you said.
The hero isn't supposed to torture, especially because he has experienced it
personally, and I was shocked and saddened that he could so easily inflict
it on someone else.  I didn't care when he tried and failed to do it to
Bella in OOTP, because he failed, and his godfather had just been killed
before his eyes.  But to torture someone over spitting?  Even knowing he was
under incredible stress and fear didn't excuse it for me.  It made me highly
uncomfortable.  But I never thought about the ministry's laws for a minute
in my reaction.

One of the reasons Harry is my favorite character and why I love him is that
he is a mix of good and bad, does the right thing, does the wrong thing,
saves his enemies from death, saved Dudley from the dementors, acts rashly,
sees his father and godfather as flawed but still loves them and everything
else.  His using the torture curse didn't make me not care for him still,
but it did disappoint me and make me wonder how his soul could still be
supposedly pure.

Sherry