Old Dung, and Imperius question.

[nkafkafi]

> kimberly: 
> Something else that's been tickling my grey cells and finally popped 
> out as an actual thought.  Can somebody under Imperius put somebody 
> *else* under Imperius?  Because it seems Mme. Rosmerta Imperio'd Katie 
> Bell, but they're always on about those Unforgivables and the 
> importance of intent and focus and all that.  I guess the will of the 
> Imperi-or could be enough to carry it out through the Imperi-ee, but 
> from the descriptions we have from GoF, I wouldn't have thought 
> Rosmerta would have had the necessary clarity to do it.  Anybody want 
> to come up with a ESE!Rosie theory?
> 

Neri:
To my knowledge we don't have canon of an imperio'ed person
imperio'ing somebody else. However, we *do* have canon of Crouch!Moody
imperio'ing Krum to crucio Cedric in the maze in GoF. 

The possibility of imperio'ed wizards imperio'ing other wizards has
terrible implications that I doubt very much JKR thought through. It
can easily be used to construct a truly apocalyptic weapon, which I
have patented as the Imperius Virus. see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/92918
and the ensuing thread. Note especially Hickengruendler's correct
point: Krum had learned the Cruciatus at Durmstrang, but British
wizards don't learn at school how to use the Unforgivables, and not
all of them may be able to learn, or have enough power to execute
them. So if Draco wanted to imperio Rosmerta to imperio Katie, he most
probably had to teach her first how to do it.

Neri