#unforgivables

for the @microficmay prompt toil & trouble, card 4

RAMPAGE IN COURTROOM TEN

War hero Harry Potter has been taken into Ministry custody following the casting of an Unforgivable Curse this afternoon.

Alleged murderer and Marked Death Eater Draco Malfoy, newly acquitted, spoke to the Prophet about Potter’s possible motivations. “I don’t know why,” he said, “I don’t know.”

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And it's canon that Aurors were allowed to use them in the 1st war(possibly second)

And that's kinda disturbing. Bellatrix says you have to MEAN them but Aurors are just... able to do it?

I mean, the killing curse, practically, is the most merciful death there be.. just Avaeedeeh keehdaahveeraah and *puff* you're dead. No, known, pain. The body doesn't get destroyed. So why is it unforgivable?

For a long time I thought it is so because... nope. I never accepted any reason, like the mass killing thing or because it kills instantly and doesn't leave a chance at surviving. Because surely, surely, there are other horrendous curses much more damaging and painful.. why, then, does the killing curse take so much of the caster? It harms the caster fundamentally? Needs blind hate and a deep desire to kill, I mean people killed death eaters but wouldn't be able or resort to use the avada kedavra..

And while I wasn't even thinking about Harry Potter world, an idea popped up :\

Remember when Harry and MoldyVoldy were trapped in their duel due to Priori Incantatem? Remember when “echoes” of people murdered by MoldyVoldy were brought out?

In the book it says they were echoes, but weren't they more than mere projections or echoes? they were conscious enough for the old man to say “yes, I knew you're a wizard” or something like that, conscious enough for Cedric to request Harry, and so and so...

Soooooo, what if the fundamental reason the killing curse is unforgivable and an abomination because it traps the soul of the murdered in the caster's wand? Could it be that because of trapping them they can't pass to the other side?

Unforgivables AU Allbert, anyone??

“This… is your best effort?” 

She almost misses His mockery. Heartbeat deafening in her ears, her magic crackling angrily around her. Delphini felt like she choking on air yet refusing to breath all at once.

“This is all you have to show for yourself?” 

He steps directly in front of her, finally cutting off her stare from the only sight that’s ever made her truly nauseous. He scoffs at her and Delphini flinches, lowering her gaze. Her wand hand is still shaking. “I have taught you better than this. We deal with failure accordingly, you are no exception from being either at the end of my ire or acting on its order."

He lifts an equally white wand under her chin, forcing her gaze up to meet his own. She just knows her eyes are desperate, pleading. 

Her father looks disgusted with her.

“Don’t disappoint me.”  

Her throat is dry as he steps away. The image of her mother slumped along the stone floor greets her like a boggart. She looks so small. Bellatrix is not looking at her, as if that makes what Delphini's about to do any easier. Suddenly, she's so angry at Him, true hatred blazing inside her. Why is He is making her do this?

It's one deep breath and a handful of heartbeats before Delphini chooses to channel that rage. She raises a trembling hand to the witch she adores most.  

“Yes, well, you’re not helping right now. I need to concentrate.” He pulled his arm away from her hand which she had placed over his for support. “I can do this, Bella, I don’t need y- I just need a second.”

“Fine,” she pouted but gave him some space. Rodolphus raised his wand again, pointing it at the boy in front of him who wasn’t moving. “Imperio,” he said and waited for something to happen. “Did it work?” He furrowed his eyebrows in concentration. “Get up,” he ordered but the boy still lay on the ground motionless. Rod sighed frustratedly, running his fingers through his hair and throwing Bella a rather nasty look as she rolled her eyes at him. “You didn’t get it right away either!” he snapped at her before raising his wand again. It bothered him that she was always so impatient with him.

“Imperio! Get up,” he repeated his earlier try and indeed, as soon as the curse hit the boy, his eyes seemed to glaze over and he sat bolt upright. “Ha, see!” Rod called out triumphantly. “Now…stand up,” he shrugged his shoulders, not really knowing what to do with this newly gained control. “Make him hit his head on the table,” Bella giggled next to him. Even though he smirked at the idea, he shook his head. “You know we can’t. It’s dangerous enough as it is. We’re going to have to make sure that the memory charm is done very thoroughly at the end. I don’t much fancy ending up in prison.”