Understanding Goat's Law [BLOATED] + realities; locked room, etc

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 
> I've just read a scene towards the end of OoP, where Harry fires a 
> Crucio curse at Bellatrix and it merely upends her.  She tells him 
> that with Unforgivable Curses, "you need to mean them, Potter! You 
> need to really want to cause pain
"
> 
> So, Harry's curse fails because it doesn't have his full conviction 
> behind it; he blames himself partly for the death of Sirius and is 
> thus unable to channel unreserved hate at Bellatrix (if he were 
> capable of that at all).  

Extracting a single point out  from a multitude of others -
I'm not totally convinced about this.
Yeah, lots of members see it the same way that you do,  but how often
has Harry got any spell right first time?

Also, if we consider Crouch!Moody's mumblings while demonstrating
the Unforgiveables ".. needs a powerful bit of magic behind it - you
could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the
words, and I doubt I'd get so much as a nose bleed."  If he's to be
believed available power, or perhaps the ability to control the necessary
power matters more than anything else. Admittedly he was commenting
on AKs, but I suspect the Unforgiveables are so called because they
exert an unethical controlling power over another. (A metaphor for 
oppression of the individual. Aren't they an expression of breaches of 
those freedoms asserted in the Declaration of Human Rights?  IIRC Jo
has confirmed this, or is that my imagination?) 

Anyway, we're left with the question - Just how powerful is Harry?
Is he, for example, more powerful than Bella? Or Malfoy Snr?
Being rated highly as a 5th year at Hogwarts is all very laudable, but
one would not expect full powers until adulthood. 
What we've seen so far is potential not yet come to fruition.

I'll bet that if he casts an Unforgiveable  in the next book it'll be a
lot more effective than that cast in the last. 
He's getting to be a big boy now.

Kneasy