[HPforGrownups] Re: Imperio.

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 177078

eggplant107 blessed us with this gem On 13/09/2007 00:41:

>  > Well, no, actually. JKR gave them
>  > that name [The Unforgivable curses].

> Then I suppose Voldemort didn't say there is no such thing as good or
> evil there is only power, JKR said it. An author doesn't necessarily
> believe everything that comes out of one of her character's mouth.

JKR gives us no other name for them. From start to finish, they're
called the Unforgivable Curses, and not just by some characters, or the
MoM. Fake Moody doesn't introduce them to the students as the "so-called
Unforgivables". Hermione doesn't say, "Some people think they're too
horrific to tolerate". Snape doesn't tell Harry, "No
Pretty-Bad-But-Not-Really-Unforgivables for you!" If JKR intended us to
understand that only some faction or other of the WW considered them
"unforgivable", then she did a very poor job of communicating it.
Whether it was the MoM who invented the moniker is nearly irrelvant; the 
designation appears to be applied universally throughout the wizarding 
world.

--CJ