ĭuring the 1996–1997 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Severus Snape had his sixth year class write a report on resisting the Imperius Curse, and thought they were so poorly written that he had to "endure" them. Most of the students under the curse were completely under Crouch's command, and could not resist at the very least, performing physical feats that they would normally be unable or unwilling to do Harry Potter was the only one who managed to resist the curse and eventually shake it off, due to his exceptionally great strength of willpower.
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Later, he claimed that he had permission to perform the Imperius Curse on students in order to teach them how to resist it, though this might also have been an excuse to get back into practice with it. ġ994 Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson on the Unforgivable Cursesĭuring the 1994–1995 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Barty Crouch Jnr, disguised as Alastor Moody, demonstrated these three curses to his fourth year classes on spiders, despite the Ministry's disapproval. Malfoy, Macnair, and several others still eluded justice under the cover of this lie. However, they were not perfect in proving deception. While their claims were accepted, the Ministry assigned personnel to attempt to determine who was truly under the curse and who was lying to escape punishment. It was also at that time that many Death Eaters, such as Lucius Malfoy, Corban Yaxley, Walden Macnair, Avery, Crabbe, Nott and Goyle claimed that they had served under Lord Voldemort only because of the Imperius Curse. This was repealed once the war was over, as it was no longer necessary. ĭuring the First Wizarding War, when Bartemius Crouch Senior was in charge of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he fought violence with violence, and legalised the three Unforgivable Curses for Aurors against the Death Eaters in order to win the war. Many Secret Keepers in the past have been subjected to the Imperius and Cruciatus Curses in an attempt to learn the secrets they keep, but to no avail as the Keeper must reveal it willingly. The use of any of these three curses on a fellow human being would result in a life sentence in Azkaban, unless there was sufficient evidence that the caster did so under the influence of another's Imperius Curse this was known to be a loophole that many Dark Wizards and Witches abused and lied about while they were facing trial, awaiting their sentence to prison time, particularly after the First Wizarding War. The Imperius Curse was deemed by the Ministry to be dark magic, and, along with the Cruciatus and Killing curses, were declared " unforgivable" in 1717. The curse was presumably created for the coercion and brainwashing of others into slavery.ĭeath Eaters face the Council of Magical Law for their use of the Unforgivable CursesĪfter the Wizards' Council was reformed into the Ministry of Magic, tighter restrictions were placed on the use of certain kinds of magic. The Imperius Curse was invented during the early Middle Ages by dark witches or wizards. " The Cruciatus, Imperius, and Avada Kedavra Curses were not made unforgivable until 1717." - Albus Dumbledore