Hmm, funny how he still gets the "he's only a teen" excuse. Draco gets no such excuse, because he obviously popped out of the womb with the knowledge of a forty year old and decided to become evil. Clearly.
LOL. Don't forget that at the same time, Harry is a Marked Man, more mature than anyone could know, while Draco's still a bratty child fixating on shallow things.
Harry was able to cast Sectumsempra without even knowing what it did with no problem. Plus, since when was Bellatrix held up as a prime reliable source here?
Not to mention the endless 'Harry couldn't cast Crucio!' snowjobs are totally inaccurate (I'll give the canonwhores this one, as I do a bunch of their dodgy arguments, as it's apparently supported - and rather unsubtly - by JKR): he didn't finish it, but he says it; Bellatrix is knocked off her feet, she screams, she stops laughing immediately. It's like saying Fake!Moody didn't cast Imperius on Harry in GoF, since Harry threw it off: the spell may have failed (in that case thanks to Harry's amazing strength of will, blah blah, whereas the Crucio is done to Harry's amazing power to love - he's so layered!), but it's not really the same as, say, what he describes in GoF, where the whole class could say 'Avada Kedavra' to him, and nothing would happen. If anything, Harry took to the Crucio, and indeed, the Sectumsempra, fairly quickly - it took him a term or so to learn Accio, in comparison.
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Date: 2006-09-25 11:12 am (UTC)LOL. Don't forget that at the same time, Harry is a Marked Man, more mature than anyone could know, while Draco's still a bratty child fixating on shallow things.
Harry was able to cast Sectumsempra without even knowing what it did with no problem. Plus, since when was Bellatrix held up as a prime reliable source here?
Not to mention the endless 'Harry couldn't cast Crucio!' snowjobs are totally inaccurate (I'll give the canonwhores this one, as I do a bunch of their dodgy arguments, as it's apparently supported - and rather unsubtly - by JKR): he didn't finish it, but he says it; Bellatrix is knocked off her feet, she screams, she stops laughing immediately.
It's like saying Fake!Moody didn't cast Imperius on Harry in GoF, since Harry threw it off: the spell may have failed (in that case thanks to Harry's amazing strength of will, blah blah, whereas the Crucio is done to Harry's amazing power to love - he's so layered!), but it's not really the same as, say, what he describes in GoF, where the whole class could say 'Avada Kedavra' to him, and nothing would happen.
If anything, Harry took to the Crucio, and indeed, the Sectumsempra, fairly quickly - it took him a term or so to learn Accio, in comparison.