Harry, Crucio, and emotion in spellcasting (WAS: Re: Blowing his cover)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181461

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> > > zgirnius:
> > > Additional evidence of his emotional state, as I see it, is the
> > > way the spell works when he casts it. More normally, a victim of
> > > this curse falls screaming to the ground and continues to
> > > experience excruciating pain until the caster deliberately stops
> > > the curse by raising his wand. Harry's spell sends Amycus
> > > crashing into a wall, where he promptly loses consciousness.
> 
> Mike:
> I included zgirnius' entire paragraph just to say that I proposed 
> this difference in the results of Harry's Crucio as compared to 
> other's Crucios way back, and nobody bought it. Glad to see a 
fellow 
> traveler, Zara.

zgirnius:
Actually, Mike, I was not proposing that Harry's Crucios as a group 
are different from anyone else's. It is my opinion that spells cast 
in a state of great emotional excitement tend to have extra 'kick', 
for lack of a better word. Other possible examples would be the 
Expelliarmus by Snape that knocked Lockhart across the stage in CoS, 
and the AK by Snape that threw Albus over the ramparts of the 
Astronomy Tower in HBP. So all I was proposing is that Harry's Crucio 
of Amycus, likewise, was done while he was extremely upset.

Other than the fact that it sends Amycus flying across the room, it 
appears in all other ways to have been a proper Crucio. (Unlike, say, 
his less sucessful attempt on Bella in OotP). Amycus gives every 
appearance of experiencing the typical excruciating pain this curse 
causes as he flies back against the wall. His subsequent loss of 
consciousness, I believe, was caused by the collision with the 
wall/and or other stuff that fell on him, not an idiosyncratic effect 
of Harry's spell.

Though I think, if Harry had not knocked Amycus out, he would have 
stopped the curse quickly. But this is just a hypothetical based on 
my opinion of Harry's character.