He tried it on Snape, who had just killed Dumbledore, but IIRC Snape just blocked it so we have no way of knowing if it would have worked.
Canon question - isn't the Cruciatus supposed to be unblockable? Or was Barty's information that distorted?
He uses it successfully on Carrow, who had been using his friends as knife-sharpeners - remember Neville?
But at the time Harry had cast it the curse served no purpose other than belated revenge. And neither do I justify him casting it on Bellatrix or Severus - while I understand why he wanted to it was still wrong to do it. It does not serve the purpose of fighting a true or believed enemy, it does not make the people he is supposed to be protecting any safer. Immobilize your enemy, incarcerate hir, do something to stop hir, but what is the point of torturing hir?
Plus, he kinda had more immediate concerns in the third case - staying alive, keeping his friends and finding the remaining Horcruxes among them.
So why waste time on torturing people for his enjoyment (and yes, he did admit enjoying it)?
As for his bathroom duel with Draco - why does Draco's past justify using an unknown spell on him? Harry was in danger - so he should have used spells he knew to be effective in that situation.
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Re: Fairness to Harry
Date: 2009-08-13 08:09 pm (UTC)Canon question - isn't the Cruciatus supposed to be unblockable? Or was Barty's information that distorted?
He uses it successfully on Carrow, who had been using his friends as knife-sharpeners - remember Neville?
But at the time Harry had cast it the curse served no purpose other than belated revenge. And neither do I justify him casting it on Bellatrix or Severus - while I understand why he wanted to it was still wrong to do it. It does not serve the purpose of fighting a true or believed enemy, it does not make the people he is supposed to be protecting any safer. Immobilize your enemy, incarcerate hir, do something to stop hir, but what is the point of torturing hir?
Plus, he kinda had more immediate concerns in the third case - staying alive, keeping his friends and finding the remaining Horcruxes among them.
So why waste time on torturing people for his enjoyment (and yes, he did admit enjoying it)?
As for his bathroom duel with Draco - why does Draco's past justify using an unknown spell on him? Harry was in danger - so he should have used spells he knew to be effective in that situation.