Harry using Crucio

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 173953

>From the live chat:
"Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio and seem to enjoy it his failure to perform that kind of curse in the past has been a credit to his character why the change, and did harry later regret having enjoyed deliberately causing pain
J.K. Rowling: Harry is not, and never has been, a saint. Like Snape, he is flawed and mortal. Harry's faults are primarily anger and occasional arrogance.On this occasion, he is very angry and acts accordingly. He is also in an extreme situation, and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent."

Amycus spat on McGonagall.  Hardly an "extreme situation."  I think McGonagall was quite capable of defending herself against "a violent and muderous opponent" after all, "We teachers are rather good at magic, you know."  And she had, after all, survived three stunners to the chest, in OotP.

I think the problem here isn't that Harry used Crucio.  It is how much he appeared to enjoy it.

JMO.

CathyD

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