DH reread CH 12 -- Cracking a Few Eggs.

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No: HPFGUIDX 186467

> jkoney:
> It seems like you are taking it out of context and expanding on it.
> 
> Harry's day started with the break in at Gringotts and ended with him finding his friends in the ROR where they are still showing signs of having been tortured. He's also under a time constraint because he needs to find the horcrux as soon as possible because Voldemort has just been told that Harry is at the castle. Standing in front of him is the person who tortured his friends and who is now spitting in the face of McGonagall.  <SNIP> Could Harry have used some other spell, yes. He could have aimed a reductor curse at his head or a cutting curse at his neck. The restraint he showed was admirable.
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Alla:

LOL, last sentence was funny. I agree with you for the most part except that I do not think that Harry showed restraint here and no, I do not need him to be perfect at all. But to me it is as simple as that - I think Harry's anger built up since he saw Neville with the signs of prolonged torture on him IMO and exploded when Carrow spit on Mcgonagall. No way I will ever be convinced that him spitting on Mcgonagall was the only reason, to me it was the last drop.

However, however again I wonder why we need characters to say that it was wrong to agree that author thinks it is wrong.

I guess I just give her more credit than that for subtlety. No, I am not saying that she sends extremely complicated messages for the most part, no. I am saying that the books are series, not the single volume and IMO if something was said or even hinted at in previous books, I think author may want to leave it at that and let us decide the rest.

I mean, forget what Sirius says about Unforgivables, really, Cruciatus is the curse that Neville's parents were tortured in the permanent insanity. Why would I even assume that author says that even brief use of this is okay? Because Mcgonagall does not say so? Eh, she is forced to spend **a year** with Carrows torturing students over and over and over.

I think her judgment could be a little bit strained by that and I totally understand it.

IMO,

Alla