Harry, Crucio, and emotion in Spellcasting

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 181648

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jayne" <jaynesmith62 at ...> 
wrote:
> I have to come in here and agree with you Steve and add in my
> thoughts.
> 
> Harry was in the middle of a war. He had to survive and he knew
> that Carrow or his sister would summon Voldemort, so I think he
> just reacted to stop that and of course to revenge the spitting
> on one of the teachers he had a lot of affection and respect for.
> I have no problem with the use of the curse..
> 
Leah: I don't read Harry's Crucio as having any strategic design 
behind it, it was just a furious reaction.  If there was a strategic 
thought behind it, then it was a pretty stupid one.  A short lived 
Crucio does nothing to Carrow long-term, it just delivers intense 
pain to him as a punishment. Once he has recovered from it, it is 
likely to inflame him to a retributive action, which might make the 
survival of Harry (and others)less certain, not more. Much better to 
have removed Carrow's wand/Stupified/bound him, to prevent him using 
the Dark Mark to summon Voldemort, and put him out of action at 
Hogwarts.  Wouldn't something like a Stinging Hex be more 
appropriate as a reaction to spitting, or do we really want to see 
Harry sinking to Carrow's own level?

Leah