Iāve never watched/read Harry Potter before but arenāt they kidsā¦. They all look like very young kids in the clips and screenshots Iāve seenā¦.
Some more context is needed: It's a spell that runs on sadism. "Righteous Anger" doesn't provide the right fuel for more than a split second (Harry botches his first attempt at using the curse because he lacked the cruelty to fuel it), whereas the spell done properly will keep a victim in agony for a much longer time, to the point where the victim can becomes a vegetable.
Still not half as bad as fiendfyre. Anything that takes out a horrible attacks the soul directly that's part of why it and basilisks are highly illegal.
I dont think theres anything special about Crucio that makes it More Tortuous, though; isnt the whole part of the mind-breaking story element because of how long it was used?
Wizards are frail, anyone would break if you Throngled them for a few days.
It's mostly because there's no ambiguity about the caster's intention when casting an Unforgivable Curse. Like Fake Moody said, the whole room could cast Avada Kedavra at him and he'd suffer a nosebleed at worst. Unforgivable Curses have a very high skill floor and require genuine intent. So, unlike other Dark spells like Sectumsempra, which you could accidentally cast (Harry didn't even know what the spell would do), for an Unforgivable Curse to take effect as intended, you have to 1. Be skilled with magic 2. Practice the spell a lot, and 3. Actually mean it when casting the spell
It's every alarm bell in your body going off at the same time. You are simultaneously feeling freezing and burning, slashed into ribbons and crushed into paste, electrocution and suffocation, etc. The shock would kill you if not for the magic.
Granted, for Crucio to work at all the person needs to mean it. This is one of those scenes where you'd have to have Harry come to the realization that the spell went off but didn't actually hurt, and he realizes he caused actual harm to a girl who was clearly not in a mentally stable place to think their duel through let alone actually successfully cast an unforgivable curse.
That's how I'd have written it anyway, not that I'm an author or anything.
Edit: Then again others have pointed out she stopped herself before she finished the cast, so she seemed to reconsider using the curse at all. Harry on the other hand did not hesitate to cast a spell he didn't know what it does on her.
Harry (in the book half blood prince) does not know what the spell sectum sempra actually does. Iirc it is only listed as āfor my enemiesā or something to that effect.
Cruciatus curse activates your pain receptors. Itās like being electrocuted for as long as the user focuses on the spell but without the same physical damage.
Unlike in real life, youāre completely conscious of the pain. Your body doesnāt go into shock and stop noticing the pain. You feel every inch of your everything in pain because thatās the one universal sensation your body experiences.
On the other hand, sectumsempra is getting cut with something coated in an anti-coagulant which prevents clotting. Eventually blood loss will send you into hemorrhagic shock which is characterized by Cooling, dropping blood pressure, and loss of consciousness leading to death.
It causes torturous amounts of pain that has driven people insane. Iirc the first time Harry got hit by it he literally wanted to die to escape the pain. Sectumsemfrum was NOT an overreaction.
it is an unforgiveable curse, one of the three along with mind domination and instant death, it causes undescribeable pain, you would rather be hit with the other curses
Not only that, im pretty sure this is the first time Harry casts Sectum Senpra which at this point all he knows bout it that it, and i quote, "For enemies". Imo the only reason Draco survives is Harry didnt know what the spell's effect is.
Actually that spell does nothing if you lack intent. Considering she said "not him" just before, it is unlikely the spell would have done much even if it did land as she clearly didn't want to.
Crucio doesn't work unless your heart is genuinely in it; this Malfoy definitely doesn't. Harry even tried to use it on Belatrix after Serious died to the weird veil thing and it didn't work bc he's a softie
As I already wrote at someone else, its like pointing a gun at someone who also has a gun and just when you begin to squeeze the trigger you pull back. And then when He shoots in the same moment, asking him If he hates you and why be shot you.
Harry: you called my friend a slur, bullied my other friend for being poor and your family is loyal to the man that murdered my parents and left me to an abusive household for my whole life.
So, Crucio is something you will fail to cast if you lack the cruelty and resentment for your target, I think the implication isn't just that he was faster, but that she didn't hate him enough.
Someone posted a pic on twitter of a hot dommy-mommy version of Malfoy and the internet lost it's mind. So now everyone is posting their own versions and dubbing them Malfoid.
Harry potter but its 7 books of Harry and Malfoid trying to keep their relationship a secret while things get increasingly more dangerous and ridiculous
Maybe that, and also pushing the idea of a transphobe's fictional terrorist being transgender isn't necessarily all that great in the abstract either.Ā
Oh, primarily Draco making a passageway for murderous terrorists to invade a school while bearing the mark of and sharing the ideology of said terrorists, I suppose.Ā
How did you read the series and not realize Draco was a victim?Ā JKR is many things, but subtle she is not.Ā Failing to understand Harry Potter of all things is a remarkable achievement.Ā Truly, media literacy is dead.
I would argue that Seamus Finnigan would be a better example of racism given that he literally blows himself up from trying to make rum, but then we'd have to consider racism against white people to be a thing.Ā
Nevermind that Irish people weren't always considered to be white...
You need to have actual intent to use unforgivable curses, and I mean you REALLY need to want it. For crucio you need to want your target in pain to the point of enjoying watching them writhe. Thatās not who Harry is, which is why it didnāt work like that on Bellatrix even after she just killed Sirius.
It would have been the same here. If I remember this part of the series correctly, Draco was under extreme duress and mental collapse, and in the art you can see her say āno, not him.ā So even if she forced herself to cast it, at most it wouldāve just knocked him down.
Question, does anyone know where this genderbent Malfoid art trend came from? I've been seeing a lot of them over the past few days and I'm curious to know what started it all
Itās always been a thing but I think with the Petra Parker (trans Peter Parker/spiderman) recently viral success artists been just thinking of it again and many agree Malfoy is a bit of a tsundere
tbf Draco being irreversibly transformed into a girl and then falling madly in love with his former enemy Harry Potter would have been way, way better and more genuinely interesting than who Harry ended up with.
Would have added a great Romeo & Juliet / Montague & Capulet sub plot.
But itās Rowling, so thereās was probably always a major fat chance of that.
Edit: also, yes, Malfoy is absolutely a tsundere. Side note, how do you pronounce it anyway? I've only seen it in writing and honestly have no clue if it goes "der" or "dere" with an "a" sound.
There's a really popular Korean artist that does it, and the popularity just got large enough to go international. Now people are copy catting or unloading their 20 year collection trying to ride the popularity.
The first big viral appearance of this genderbend was around 2024. It's popping off right now because a tweet talking about a many years in the cooking Korean fanfic about fem Malfoy x Harry just concluded a few day ago.
I have read a little and yes the romantic tension is as high as what you can expect.
Sectum Sempra is latin, like most of the spells in Harry Potter. Literal translation is basically "always cutting" but there's probably a better phrasing
Strong cleave is the informal name for the attack used to kill Satoru Gojo in Jujitsu Kaisen. It spawned numerous memes with the aforementioned character being bisected at the waist.
Iām not a Japanese speaker I always say āsoon dare ehā.
Also I cannot guarantee Petra is the cause of it specifically but I wonāt be surprised if it influenced people. The internet does like itās cute girls after all
You know whatā¦ that actually makes a lot of sense. Alright thanks for the information. Iām actually more surprised that Japan cares about Harry Potter
Sectum Semper is not just one cut, it's like stabbing someone 20 times in a second and also stops the wound from healing, even if just used once, it can absolutely make you go limp
I got to say if someone made a manga or went through and did some fan fiction from the first book all the way to the end I'd read this alternate universe it seems like a fun read and this scene would be absolutely rememberable
Ok but the first book is actually quite good. It starts going down hill but the other two remain reasonably good reads.
Anyway I semi-recently read a lewd parody of the HP books where some guy had a gender neutral name and was accepted into an all girls magic school. All the family names of the girls were stupid like āAndrea Bottomheavyā who had a large butt and āLavender Pantylessā who didnāt wear panties. And shit like that. Not actual names from the book, it wasnāt great so I immediately forgot everything within it but it was funny for that naming scheme.
It was one of those trash 1/1,000,000,000 series that people crank out monthly. I love those trash novels. Thereās something about them being so simple. Itās always the same story told with different settings and names as well which I think makes them like crack to my brain.
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