an Unforgivable which the teacher has to fight to demonstrate or teach.
Are you mixing up canon and MoR? There’s no mention I can recall that Crouch-Moody needed any particular permission to demonstrate all three Unforgivables on the first day of class, and he never taught how to cast any of them.
Whoops, you’re right, actually- but it seems to be standard procedure, it’s not like he had to fight to have it done.
Now, according to the Ministry of Magic, I’m supposed to teach you countercurses and leave it at that. I’m not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until you’re in the sixth year. You’re not supposed to be old enough to deal with it till then. But Professor Dumbledore’s got a higher opinion of your nerves, he reckons you can cope, and I say, the sooner you know what you’re up against, the better.
Are you mixing up canon and MoR? There’s no mention I can recall that Crouch-Moody needed any particular permission to demonstrate all three Unforgivables on the first day of class, and he never taught how to cast any of them.
Entirely possible! I thought Moody needed Ministry approval, but I no longer have the books to check.
Whoops, you’re right, actually- but it seems to be standard procedure, it’s not like he had to fight to have it done.
So he did violate normal operating procedure—I claim this as a moral victory!
Is that more satisfying than the normal kind?
As long as I don’t try to eat it or make use of it in any way.
No, but it’s a lot easier to accomplish.
In canon, Hermione (I think) notes that it is weird that illegal curses are being cast, but no one follows up—at all.
I’m not sure if Dumbledore realized at the time that it occurred.