Snape's Role/ dark magic

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 176537


--Margaret Dean
<margdean at erols.com <mailto:margdean%40erols.com> >:
"As a side note, I tend to think that the classification of
"Unforgivable" Curses is a legal one, kind of the equivalent of a
Zero Tolerance policy in the "war on drugs." It doesn't
necessarily have any deeper meaning than "getting caught using
these without specific official sanction will land you in
Azkaban."

I've been toying with the idea that the Dark or Black spells can only be used to
harm, and have no benign or neutral applications.  That is why, for example, AK
is Unforgivable, not any killing by magic.  (Say, using WL to thrust a dagger
into someone's heart.  Definitely a crime--depending on the circumstances,
either murder or manslaughter--but not as serious a one as using AK.  WL has
benign applications; AK does not.   You could torture someone by using Augamenti
to 'waterboard' him, but Aguamenti has legitimate uses--Crucio does not.)


Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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