[HPforGrownups] Re: Imperio

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 176775


On 2007, Sep 06, , at 05:23, va32h wrote:

> Or Impedimenta, to stop the bus.  Or that thing DD does to slow Harry
> down when he's falling off his broom in PoA.
>
> Or Sonorus, to make your voice so loud that I can hear you in time to
> jump out of the way myself.
>
> It's always easier to just force people to do what you want - that
> doesn't make it the best choice.
>
> va32h

OK.  So, yes, perhaps there are effective choices - I just
am not as quick at thinking of them as other people are.

But the question still remains (perhaps only in my mind),
is it really that horrible to do an Imperio?  So horrible
that it is an Unforgiveable?  The person was not asked
to do anything that would be damaging to him/herself or
to others.  It didn't involve a matter of conscience that the
person would regret if s/he had consciously performed
the act.  The person was not rendered incapable of
making other informed, conscious decisions.  The effect
was very short lived.

It just doesn't seem that horrible to me.

Laura
-- 
Laura Lynn Walsh    lwalsh at acsalaska.net
http://llwcontemplations.blogspot.com



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