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Friday Fun Thread for November 3, 2023

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I mean, the Wizarding World went from a period of relative peace to warring against the resurgent Death Eaters, so I find that hardly surprising, and I can't recall many of the "good" guys ever resorting to them, if at all.

I can't recall many of the "good" guys ever resorting to them, if at all.

I mean, in the last book there was the protagonist casually using the torture spell on someone for the crime of spitting on an old lady he liked.

As far as I recall it wasn't much harsher than kicking him in the balls in context. Certainly wasn't a prolonged torture session like a typical Cricuatus use case.

That's the point, the creep from 'one of three unforgivable curses we will never tolerate' to 'oh it was only a little bit, kinda like kicking someone in the balls.'

He also mind-controlled a guy in the Gringotts earlier.

I also had a point about how Azkhaban seems significantly worse than the killing curse, but I deleted that part of my comment, because I realized real life prisons are often much worse than the crimes they punish too.

The "good" guys stupefying their enemies just to send them to a torture camp for the rest of their lives doesn't seem all that good though.

Yeah. Especially if the penalty for getting caught is life in Azkaban...if that's the case, I would expect a lot more big-league criminals in this world to fight to the death to avoid being captured by law enforcement. A big league drug lord or something can do OK in prison; a big league Death Eater is just going to spend the rest of his life being tortured by Dementors.