[HPforGrownups] Re: Blowing his cover

[Kai Wen Lee]

No: HPFGUIDX 181312

livednlondon wrote:
> First of all, it is not an unforgivable spell. It is an 
> Unforgivable spell. Note the capital "U". It is an 
> official designation, created by a Ministry that couldn't 
> pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were
> written on the heel.

Ah, deja vu all over again.

Question One: Do we know that the label was invented by the Ministry?

Question Two: If the MoM says it's dark at night, would you argue it's not?

A proposition is not automatically false just because the MoM says it's true.
And, aside from all these post hoc attempts to justify Our Hero's questionable
moral choices, there's little to no indication in canon that the Unforgivables
are anything but.

But even if one wants to argue the Unforgivables aren't, their use is by all accounts
a matter of grave import. Neither Harry's burst of anger in OotP, nor Amycus'
spittle in DH come close to justifying a Cruciatus, particularly when they were
obviously cast not out of necessity but from a desire for vengeance.

CJ

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