
	Where results make sense

Topic: Unforgivable curses

Related Topics

Dudley Dursley

Cruciatus Curse

Harry Potter (character)

Rubeus Hagrid

Death Eater

Severus Snape

Lord Voldemort

Ministry of Magic

Dementor

Draco Malfoy

Patronus Charm

Arthur Weasley

Evil

Printing press

Arthur

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Lesson 2 Classification of Curses.
		‘Curse’ is often incorrectly extended to include spells that affect the mind, and in its original form that might have been acceptable, but recently the terms and definitions used in the magical world have become more structured and psychological attacks have gained their own separate accumulation of jargon.
		As Subtle curses are slow acting and thus of little use in self-defence, there is no justification for their use, and proof of use can result in a variety of penalties, from a fine to a sojourn in the upper levels of Azkaban.
		The curse can still be evaded at this stage, by moving from the caster’s sightline, but after about ten seconds, the warmth intensifies exponentially, and the victim’s flesh begins to melt off their bones over a period of roughly two minutes.
	www.thestroppyprofessor.com /dada/curses.html (3014 words)

	Unforgivable Curses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The curses are so named because their use is literally unforgivable in the Wizarding World.
		Voldemort attempted to use the curse on Harry Potter towards the end of Order of the Phoenix but was blocked by Dumbledore who transfigured a golden statue at the fountain in the atrium of the Ministry.
		In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, during the Battle Of The Tower and the Flight of the Prince, a Death Eater attempted this curse on Ginny Weasley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unforgivable_Curses (2124 words)

	Harry Potter: Discussion Chamber Archive
		The person who is cursed would have some kind of minor irritation for the rest of their life (like an itch that won't go away or somebody blowing in their ear).
		This curse would be preformed on oneself to grow younger to live your life "again." This curse would be triggered by the following words: "Expectious Reliveous!" The only reason I can think of to shield yourself from this curse would be if one was to want you never to be born.
		I think the forth unforgivable curse would be a curse that puts someone in utter sorrow, they're deppressed all the time.
	www.scholastic.com /harrypotter/reading/curses.htm (2821 words)

	Finnixa got their homepage at Neopets.com
		The Unforgivable curses are despicable deeds done by dispicable wizards down a road of death.
		This curse is also one of the few that we have identified the color of, its coloring is an erie green.
		Finally, the imperious curse is the final curse in the unforgivable curse's road.
	www.neopets.com /~Finnixa (447 words)

	HPL: Encyclopedia of Spells: U
		Three curses in particular are known as Unforgivable because using them on another human being can result in a life term in Azkaban.
		These three curses were used extensively by Voldemort's followers during his rise to power in the 1970s, and their use by Aurors against suspects was in turn authorized by Bartemius Crouch senior at that time.
		One, the Killing Curse, was used by Voldemort himself on Harry Potter, but the curse backfired and Voldemort was defeated.
	www.hp-lexicon.org /magic/spells/spells_u.html (391 words)

	The Unforgivable Curses
		There is the "Imperius Curse", which allows the caster to control the victim.
		It is also believed that the muggle word and pretend spell "abracadabra" came from the name of this curse.
		I know I would never want to hurt anyone with an Unforgivable Curse, not only would the punishment be harsh, but no one deserves to be hurt with any of those curses.
	www.expage.com /dadamelanie1 (559 words)

	e23: Monsters of Twilight: Curse Monsters
		Curses have long played a pivotal role in narratives and popular culture from the stories of the ancient world to the Curse of the Bambino.
		A curse is a retributive evil or misfortune; bad things happening to those who commit some grave sin or crime.
		Modern and ancient literature is rife with curses, from the Curse of Ham in the bible (Genesis 9:18-29) to the Unforgivable Curses of Harry Potter.
	e23.sjgames.com /item.html?id=SP3007 (312 words)

	SSRN-Harry Potter and the Unforgivable Curses: Norm-formation, Inconsistency, and the Rule of Law in the Wizarding ...
		This article attempts to examine the problems with the wizarding word's legal system by focusing on one particular problem: the Unforgivable Curses, three spells whose use on humans is punishable by life imprisonment.
		The three Unforgivable Curses are the Cruciatus Curse, which causes unbearable pain; the Imperius Curse, which allows the user to control the actions of the victim; and the Killing Curse, which causes instant death.
		There are inconsistencies both in the application of the law and in the selection of certain curses as Unforgivable.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=818185 (529 words)

	RPG Now: Monsters of Twilight: Curse Monsters
		A curse is an retributive evil or misfortune; bad things happening to those who commit some grave sin or crime.
		Odysseus was cursed in Odyssey by Poseidon for tormenting Poseidon?s son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, and did not make it home for ten years.
		Modern and ancient literature is rife with curses, from the Curse of Ham in the bible (Genesis 9: 18-29) to the Unforgivable Curses of Harry Potter.
	www.rpgnow.com /product_info.php?products_id=6687&SRC=Specials (399 words)

	Harry Potter Spell Glossary - Spells and Charms - Children's Books
		One of the three Unforgivable Curses, this spell causes death.
		One of the three Unforgivable Curses, this spell is the Cruciatus Curse and causes great pain.
		One of the three Unforgivable Curses, this allows a wizard to take total control of another person.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art11045.asp (726 words)

	blog.myspace.com/renatagrokesyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Is created by Anna Luiza Scorpid in 1963 (her early sorcery years), so, though it's very powerful, it has some problems, like opening a small wound on the victim's body (or a scar, when it exists), making the spell identification very easy.
		Torquere: Torquere is a legendary torturing curse, the 3rd of 4.
		Anna has used it many times in public, but, as the spell is a sentence, people think she cast it non verbal and threatened the subject in Latin.
	blog.myspace.com /renatagrokesyn (1206 words)

	The Unforgivable Curses: Are aurors murderers? - Chamber of Secrets
		I do think that Aurors use the unforgivable curses just because if they are Dark Wizard catchers they are in a sense protecting the "good" wizarding community and should be able to do so in any possible way.
		I don't think that aurors need the "hatred power" to back up their killing curse because they go through years of training that I would think that they would learn how to use the Unforgivable curses by sheer determination.
		For example, DD didn't have to use any of the unforgiveable curses against the DE's at the ministry, he hooked them all up in one wave of his wand.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?t=91484 (2918 words)

	Amaranth Academy of Magic - A Harry Potter RPG
		Example, I’m sure everyone is aware that the three unforgivable curses-the Cruciatus curse,the Avada Kedavra curse and the Imperius curse-if used, are punishable by life imprisonment.
		This means that no roleplayers are allowed to have their characters use these curses, unless it is in the plot, or the reason has been accepted by the administrator.
		Also, after every spell, curse and charm, there will be a number rating the level of difficulty-1 being easy, 2 being moderate, and 3 being hard.
	www.geocities.com /headmistress_carides/useful_spells.htm (589 words)

	The Unforgivable Curses (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are three illegal curses in the wizard world, otherwise known as the unforgivable curses.
		This curse was once used by You Know Who, to control people to do his bidding.
		There are no counter curses to this curse and no blocking it.
	expage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /90238 (336 words)

	SparkNotes: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Chapters Thirteen–Fourteen
		He hobbles in, grizzled and gruff, and he tells the students to put away their books; he says that the class has studied dark creatures but that they were behind in curses, and that he has one year to cover the subject.
		This is the curse that Voldemort used to put wizards under his control).
		Harry is upset to see the final curse, which killed his parents; it kills instantly, yet it leaves the victim entirely unmarked.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/potter4/section7.rhtml (1065 words)

	Harry Potter Society
		Below is a list of all the spells, charms, hexes and curses i've managed to find in the first four harry potter books, i'll add the spells from book five soon.
		the killing curse, unblockable; one of the unforgivable curses.
		one of the unforgivable curses; makes victim suffer intense pain, can be ended when the wand is withdrawn
	www.harrypottersociety.com /spells.php (357 words)

	MuggleNet \| Veritaserum and Controlled Substances in the Magical World - An editorial by Stuart C.
		To understand the reasons behind the tight restrictions on the use of Veritaserum, it is helpful to compare the use of this potion with the Unforgivable Curses.
		Other editorialists have pointed out why the Unforgivable Curses are forbidden: the Cruciatus Curse inflicts tortuous pain, the Imperius Curse deprives one of free will, and the Killing Curse destroys life.
		The only time the Ministry has ever permitted the use of these curses is against the Death Eaters at the height of Voldemort's reign of terror.
	www.mugglenet.com /editorials/theburrow/stuart01.shtml (935 words)

	Felix Felicis - Liquid Luck : Who: EVERYONE in the 1st through 6th Yea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The unforgivables are three of the easiest dark curses for a dark wizard to perform, and damn near impossible to avoid.
		If for example a wizard with a pure heart was face to face with ten of the meanest Death Eaters around, and the only option he or she had left was to use the killing curse, he or she wouldn't be able to.
		It's not an unforgivable, unless the circumstances are extenuating curse, but in the eyes of the ministry, in the cases of certain wizards over the years who have used the curses in their own defenses, have gotten lighter punishments than in other cases."
	www.greatestjournal.com /community/felix__felicis/11470.html?thread=193998 (1804 words)

	[No title]
		The Ministry says three curses are"unforgivable," punishable by a life sentence at Azkaban for any wizard who performs them on another human.
		It is the curse that Lord Voldemort used to kill Harry's parents, the one with which he tried to kill Harry, and the one he used to kill Cedric Diggory.
		Many charms, spells, and curses are simply Latin words for the desired effect.
	lair2000.net /whogworts/Classes/Charms.html (589 words)

	theillegalcurses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are three illegal curses in the wizard world(as so known as the unforgivable curses).
		The first illegal curse is the Imperius Curse.
		The third(and worse curse) is the Killing Curse.
	www.homestead.com /owlpost1/theillegalcurses.html (242 words)

	U: Ukrainian Ironbelly - Up/ Harry Potter Grimoire
		There are three curses which are deemed unforgivable and regarded as belonging to the realm of the Dark Arts.
		By voicing "Crucio", one uses the Cruciatus Curse to cause intense, unimaginable pain in the victim.
		Curiously, there is a term, abra kadrabra, meaning "destroy the thing", which sounds close to the Killing Curse, and it has transmogrified into abracadabra, a harmless spell used by those show persons whom muggles call magicians.
	gothlupin.tripod.com /u.html (452 words)

	MuggleNet \| Harry Potter Spells / Curses / Charms List (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Unforgivable Curse used to kill the victim.
		Curse Conjunctivitis is an illness of the eyes that makes eyelids crust together.
		Professor Quirrell told his class about this curse, although its exact effect is unknown.
	www.mugglenet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /info/other/spells.shtml (854 words)

	The Unforgivable Curses: Are aurors murderers? - Page 7 - Chamber of Secrets
		It is never stated in the books that aurors use unforgivable curses all the time, but it does say that at a certain time Crouch allowed it.
		By labeling Voldemort and DE as the "bad guys" because they torcher, murder, enslave (all by the Unforgivable Curses among other things), and shows no mercy or compassion, the MoM has taken the moral highground.
		As for the Cruciatus and the Imperious curses, neither kill so I don't see how they come into the discussion of whether Aurors are murderers if the use the Unforgivable, although the thread title implies all three Unforgivables.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?p=3994339#post3994339 (2457 words)

	HONEYDUKES \| It's Magic!!!!! \| honeydukes.eu.kz
		The Killing Curse (incantation: "Avada Kedavra!") is considered by most wizards the worst curse, as it kills whoever or whatever it is cast upon.
		The curse is one of three Unforgivable Curses - curses that are illegal and can land a wizard in Azkaban Prison for using them (see "Imperio!" and "Crucio!").
		The Cruciatus Curse (incantation: "Crucio!") inflicts severe pain on whoever it is cast on.
	www.geocities.com /honeydukes_web/spells.html (1651 words)

	-=~The Ministry's Most Wanted~=- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		..:Used an Unforgivable Curse on Neville Longbottom at the battle of the Department of Mysteries (1996).
		..:Murdered Belinda Thornshank, Ministry Dept of Education, in Diagon Alley in 2005 with an Unforgiveable Curse.
		..:Used Unforgiveable Curses and resisted arrest at the battle at the Department of Mysteries (1996).
	hogwartsmagic.com /ministrysmostwanted.htm (1058 words)

	profwallace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This class is to teach the studies of the defense against the dark arts.
		your homework this week is to dicribe the unforgivable curses.
		your homework is to write about all of the unforgivable curses and discribe and must be a page long.
	www.homestead.com /mrwhawks1/profwallace.html (68 words)

	Harry Potter Spells- Tweentimes - Indiatimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Imperius Curse: Say "Imperio" and you will have total control over the subject (human or animal) and you can make them do whatever you want and is an ‘Unforgivable Curses’ (Unforgivable Curses were banned by the Ministry of Magic)
		Cruciatus Curse: This spell is used to torture the person by making them twist and roll around in pain (one of the ‘Unforgivable Curses’).
		Avada Kedavra: This is the Killing Curse where the victim will fall dead instantly with no marks on their body (one of the ‘Unforgivable Curses’).
	tweens.indiatimes.com /articleshow/29618.cms (659 words)

	Can Harry use UNFORGIVABLE CURSES? - Chamber of Secrets
		The Unforgivable Curses are forbidden for everyone, regardless of age.
		I'm quite undecided about whether he could currently cast a successful unforgivable as it appears the only time he tries to cast one he is under severe emotional stress.
		Harry did use a unforgivable curse on Snape but he is a legilmens so he could block it.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?t=88269 (1912 words)

	MuggleNet \| Editorials \| The Boy Who Loved, or Why Love Conquers All - An editorial by David Whittaker
		We have talked about Harry’s attempted use of the Cruciatus, but it is his non-use of another Unforgivable Curse, Voldemort’s trademark, that sheds most light on his character; throughout all his trials and heartbreak, Harry has never attempted to use Avada Kedavra.
		Voldemort was originally defeated in Godric’s Hollow by Lily’s love for her son, which was the motivation for her sacrifice, not by a clever spell or charm she previously cooked up with Dumbledore.
		The message, however, is clear: Harry is stronger for remaining pure of heart, living for love, and retains "the incomparable power of a soul that remains untarnished and whole," whereas Voldemort’s soul is broken, scattered and mutilated, both by his hatred and his fear of death.
	www.mugglenet.com /editorials/editorials/edit-dwhittaker01.shtml (1808 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)