Blowing his cover

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 181300

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Liz P <dongan51 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Tiffany:
> >(snip> was about Harry usuing Unforgivable's to protect his 
> > friends.
> 
> zgirnius:
> Quote, please? The only Unforgivable I can remember him casting 
> in the Battle of Hogwarts was a Crucio, in a situation where no 
> one's life was on the line. <snip> especially as that action was 
> over and done with a moment later.
> 
> When Harry's life really was on the line...he used "Expelliarmus".
> 
> Liz:
> 
> I need to go fetch my books, but did Harry use an Unforgiveable 
> in OOTP? What caused Bellatrix to tell him that he, "needed to 
> mean it" when performing such a curse. I always felt a bit jipped 
> by the ending of the book. I had to re-read it twice before I 
> understood, what Harry knew, that he was the true master of the 
> Elder Wand, and why in fact "Expelliarmus" was his best hope.

Geoff:
Yes he did.

'Hatred rose in Harry such as he had never known before; he f
lung himself out from behind the fountain and bellowed "Crucio!"

Bellatrix screamed: the spell had knocked her off her feet, but 
she did not writhe and shriek with pain as Neville had - she was 
already back on her feet, breathless, no longer laughing....

..."Never used an Unforgiveable Curse before, have you, boy?" 
she yelled. She had abandoned her baby voice now. "You need 
to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain - 
to enjoy it - righteous anger won't hurt me for long...."'
(OOTP "The Only One He Ever Feared" p.715 UK edition)