But... isn't that one of the Unforgivable Curses? That's a life sentence in Azkaban!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Harry has used the Cruciatus Curse twice. both on death eaters, one was successful...so he should have two life sentences in azkaban but he's harry potter so they let it slide

by Anonymous 13 years ago

He also used Imperio several times to control the goblin and death eater at Gringrotts

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes on Bogrod and Travers But it seems like the Imperius Curse is the lesser of the three and not as punishable or bad because many wizards use it if they have to like Harry on Bogrod and Travers, Kingsley on Marietta, etc

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought Kingsley just Confunded Marrieta? Not that it matters, but I think Dumbledore would have been a bit mad if Kingsley used an Unforgivable in front of him.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nope i was wrong...he modified her memory Dumbledore: "He [Kingsley] was remarkably quick on the uptake, modifying Miss edgecombe's memory like that while everyone was looking the other way-thank him for me, won't you, Minerva?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, that makes considerably more sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The times when Harry used the Unforgivable Curses were during the ruling of Voldemort, I believe. Maybe it was allowed as it was a time of war?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also, the Ministry had been taken over, so who's going to arrest him? Some Death Eaters? Oh no! Now that he's done some Unforgiveables, he better try to keep away from those guys!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True, but then he'd have to deal with all the guilt/ punishment later, which wouldnt make for a happy ending.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Didn't he say somewhere that he didn't want to be like Voldy?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

He wouldn't have been able to kill Voldemort due to the fact that he had seven horcruxes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes because voldemort didn't have horcruxes or anything, right... And when all the horcruxes were gone, Voldemort died anyways, due to his ignorance, so Harry never needed to use it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That was purely by chance. If Harry hadn't accidentally said Voldemort's name, the Snatchers would never have caught him and brought him to Malfoy Manor, so Harry would never have overpowered Draco and won the Elder Wand's allegiance. So during Harry and Voldemort's final duel, it would have been wizard versus wizard without the Elder Wand's allegiance even making a difference. Voldemort said he performed his usual level of magic with it when it belonged to Harry, so it would have been ordinary Voldemort versus ordinary Harry, meaning the worst that could have happened would have been Voldemort being disarmed, so Harry would still have to finish him off.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well yeah you're right about that. But since Harry disarmed Draco and later on knew that he's the true master of the Elder Wand, he knew that he didn't have to use it. But if Harry never met Draco, and Draco was still the true master, then in that case Harry would've had to use the killing curse. But since all that happened, he knew that he didn't have to use it. Anyways, in both ways, Harry still had to wait until all of the horcruxes were destroyed, so I still don't see how using Avada Kedavra would've made "his life easier" as this post says.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

After all of the horcruxes had been destroyed, Avada Kedavra would have been a quick and easy way to kill Voldemort. That would make Harry's life easier because he wouldn't have to test his skill against Voldemort. He'd just have to either disarm him or catch him off guard.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

LOL no it wouldn't. After about like, Idk, 30 minutes or something since the last horcrux (Nagini) was destroyed, Voldemort died. And no, using the killing curse wouldn't have been a quicker and easier way to kill Voldemort, it would've probably made things harder and more complicated. Still, my point is that I disagree with this post that no it wouldn't have made his life easier because he can't really destroy horcruxes by the killing curse, so.... And what you said just implied that it would've made it like 5 minutes quicker, that's it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How would it NOT have made killing Voldemort easier? It's the KILLING curse. That's what it does. It kills people. Without his horcruxes, Voldemort's as mortal as anybody else.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It wouldn't have made killing Voldemort easier because Voldemort isnt't going to just stand there while Harry says the curse, plus Voldemort also wanted to kill Harry, so they would've both tried to kill each other at the same time, so how on Earth would've that worked? It was more efficient for the curse to rebound. Please, I'm sure J.K Rowling knew what she was doing

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're only looking at the final confrontation. But if he would have just killed the death eaters every time they bothered him after the Ministry was taken over, his fights would have been over quicker and easier

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Either way you look at it, when it came to the final confrontation, each of them only ended up casting one spell. Harry cast Expelliarmus and got the same result as if he had casted Avada Kedavra. I don't see how that's any more complicated.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you! You're right. If he had casted Avada Kedavra instead, then the whole thing would've been a chaos, who knows what would've happened. So Harry did a smart thing by just disarming Voldemort.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

He's too noble for that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago