Do you remember first year when Harry hexed Neville with the Invictus Jinx? It made him insult everyone, all day long. He called me a stuck-up prissy know-it-all, or something like that.
He couldn't stop himself.
The funny thing was that although the jinx wasn't his fault, I think it kind of was making him say things that he's too polite to say ordinarily but he DID mean, at least a little. You know? He didn't call RON a stuck-up prissy know-it-all, he called Ron a thick git, or something like that.
Neville hated it but everyone else thought it was funny, even his friends. And once I realised it was a jinx I didn't hold it against Neville and it really didn't bother me at all, and I thought it was because I knew it was a compulsion jinx and not something he was doing because he wanted to. But actually it was because I didn't much care what Neville thought of me.
Anyway.
Now I'm trying to decide if it would be worse if Umbridge made Pansy hurt me physically. On one hand -- knowing Pansy doesn't mean it makes it hurt less. Knowing that the cruciatus curse was really being performed by Umbridge even if she was using Pansy's body to do it, that wouldn't make it hurt any less because it would still be cruciatus. On the other hand it would be over a lot faster.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandroot
Private message to Terry Boot
Date: 2013-04-17 04:54 am (UTC)He couldn't stop himself.
The funny thing was that although the jinx wasn't his fault, I think it kind of was making him say things that he's too polite to say ordinarily but he DID mean, at least a little. You know? He didn't call RON a stuck-up prissy know-it-all, he called Ron a thick git, or something like that.
Neville hated it but everyone else thought it was funny, even his friends. And once I realised it was a jinx I didn't hold it against Neville and it really didn't bother me at all, and I thought it was because I knew it was a compulsion jinx and not something he was doing because he wanted to. But actually it was because I didn't much care what Neville thought of me.
Anyway.
Now I'm trying to decide if it would be worse if Umbridge made Pansy hurt me physically. On one hand -- knowing Pansy doesn't mean it makes it hurt less. Knowing that the cruciatus curse was really being performed by Umbridge even if she was using Pansy's body to do it, that wouldn't make it hurt any less because it would still be cruciatus. On the other hand it would be over a lot faster.
But it might just about kill Pansy.
I'm glad the essay was useful, at least.