h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I didn't mean that Harry *would* go over to the dark side...just that he's using spells that are considered dark arts. It's been pointed out that some wizards (like Dumbledore) have the ability perform dark arts stuff, but choose not to.

I was just idly wondering if this might be some kind of 'test' that Harry has to overcome.

Yes, especially as the author is named "Ende" - german for "End"!

Lionel Hutz> "Mr Simpson I haven't seen a case of false advertisng as big as this since my suit aganst the "Neverending story""!

Which reminds me. In prague we were in a resturaunt that had the radio on and the were playing the music from the Never Ending Story.

Class!

Moody knows all the Dark curses and he ain't no bad guy.

I wonder why the dark curses are even taught, wouldn'T the temptation just be too great for some?

You'd need to know the Unforgiveable Curses and other Dark Arts so you could dodge or deflect them or otherwise defend yourself against them

But Moody's an Auror, besides I don't think he uses them.
Are the curses usually taught, or is that just something Crouch jr did?
I could be wrong though.

I agree. It does seem that you'd have to know what the Dark Arts are to defend yourself against them.

Yes, but by the time thy'Re said, it'S too late - I think *naming* the spells is the risk, unless there's a reasonable chance they'd come accross them written down somewhere and have to know *not* to use them!

No, as Harry showed the Imperius Curse can be resisted and the Cruciatus can be withstood. Even the Avada Kevrada can be dodged by disarming somebody. What was the fourth Unforgiveable Curse incidentally?

There were just three that Moody taught.

Septumsempra is pretty nasty though and that's the Half Blooded Prince's creation... Snape.

I don't know anymore

Oh, I thought there were four. I'll have to read GoF again.

Three spiders, three curses... Imperious, Cruciatus, and Avavdra Kedavra.

Oh, and the curse of noticing spelling errors while the page loads.

There probably were, I just donT' know what they could have been.

Imperius! That's it!

No, we had that...

There are three mentioned in GoF. Imperius, Cruciatus and Avada Kedavra.

So maybe there *are* only three after all