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 Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

> JKR gives us no other name for them.
> From start to finish, they're called
> the Unforgivable Curses

True.

> Fake Moody doesn't introduce them to
> the students as the "so-called Unforgivables". 

Instead of telling us that the name is not to be taken literally JKR
does something much better, she shows us. Harry successfully uses 2
out of the 3 unforgivable curses but if she wanted her readers to
despise Harry and never to forgive him then she has indeed done a
remarkably bad job. But just between you and me, I have a sneaky hunch
that JKR did not want her readers to hate Harry.

> Hermione doesn't say, "Some people 
> think they're too horrific to tolerate".
 
So, are you asking us to believe that Hermione hated Harry till her
dying day? If the name of those curses is meant to be taken literally
then she must. Thus the name is not to be taken literally. QED. 

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