About Harry’s darkside. It seems new and weird that his darkside can be hurt by Hermione’s plight. Last time he went over to his darkside strongly (after dementor exposure), he ended up in a state where he hated everyone he cares about and only came out because he didn’t know how to respond to her kissing him, not because he cared.
He did achieve some progress with his darkside in Azkaban—he became less affected by them, and now it seems it shares his goals to some degree.
Last time his darkside had control its response looked like this:
There was a compulsion to chew and swallow chocolate. The response to compulsion was killing.
People had gathered around and stared. That was annoying. The response to annoyance was killing.
Other people were chattering in the background. That was insolent. The response to insolence was to inflict pain, but since none of them were useful, killing them would be simpler.
Killing all those people would be difficult. But many of them didn’t trust Quirrell, who was strong. Finding exactly the right trigger could cause them all to kill each other.
I find it hard to believe that getting everyone to kill each other is going to be the solution, but it can’t be discounted.
Even if he can order the dementor around (seems likely), how in the world would he overcome the aurors already maintaining patronuses, not to mention Dumbledore?
Reveal to everyone the secret of Dementors so that their animal patroni are no longer effective. Wait until the Dementor has taken out most of the room (Harry has already managed to resist Dementors without his patronus), while either protecting Hermione himself or encouraging Dumbledore to grab her and phoenix-flee.
Quirrell said that the best strategy against a Dementor is just to Apparate away, which suggests that, if the Wizengamot room has an anti-Apparition defence like Hogwarts, everyone who has neither a phoenix nor a Patronus (and isn’t Harry) is screwed.
I don’t think this is going to be Harry’s solution, but I think it might be the best of the violent solutions.
About Harry’s darkside. It seems new and weird that his darkside can be hurt by Hermione’s plight. Last time he went over to his darkside strongly (after dementor exposure), he ended up in a state where he hated everyone he cares about and only came out because he didn’t know how to respond to her kissing him, not because he cared.
This is in fact exactly what happened:
Without even thinking he was trying to flee inside himself, flee into his dark side, pull the cold rage over himself like a shield. It took too long, he hadn’t tried to go fully into his dark side since Azkaban. And then when his blood was something like cold, he looked up again, and saw Hermione in the chair again, and discovered that his dark side knew nothing about how to deal with this type of pain, it pierced through the coldness like a knife and didn’t hurt less in the slightest.
About Harry’s darkside. It seems new and weird that his darkside can be hurt by Hermione’s plight. Last time he went over to his darkside strongly (after dementor exposure), he ended up in a state where he hated everyone he cares about and only came out because he didn’t know how to respond to her kissing him, not because he cared.
He did achieve some progress with his darkside in Azkaban—he became less affected by them, and now it seems it shares his goals to some degree.
Last time his darkside had control its response looked like this:
I find it hard to believe that getting everyone to kill each other is going to be the solution, but it can’t be discounted.
Get the dementor to eat “yes” voters until the “no” voters outnumber them.
I like the way you think.
I bet Quirrel would, too. It’s kinda similar to “There is indeed a certain useful spell which solves the problem”.
Even if he can order the dementor around (seems likely), how in the world would he overcome the aurors already maintaining patronuses, not to mention Dumbledore?
Reveal to everyone the secret of Dementors so that their animal patroni are no longer effective. Wait until the Dementor has taken out most of the room (Harry has already managed to resist Dementors without his patronus), while either protecting Hermione himself or encouraging Dumbledore to grab her and phoenix-flee.
Quirrell said that the best strategy against a Dementor is just to Apparate away, which suggests that, if the Wizengamot room has an anti-Apparition defence like Hogwarts, everyone who has neither a phoenix nor a Patronus (and isn’t Harry) is screwed.
I don’t think this is going to be Harry’s solution, but I think it might be the best of the violent solutions.
This is in fact exactly what happened: