well i did a search and checked the master list and couldn't find anything and nothing came up that had to do with this. mod's if you need to close this because it's been discussed then please do.

ok well this is just a thought and i am not sure if it's true or not since we don't really know but i was wondering could draco have been put under the imperius curse in book 6? as we know he was given the duty of killing dumbledore but he seemed of course scared to do so at some points during the book. was he put under the curse to make sure that he would get the job done or was he not? he did seem confused and lost of what to do during the book so someone but then again he seemed dedicated too to the bad side and getting the job done. it's possible but not certain. again this is just a thought that just occured to me and i am not saying it's true or not. please give your thoughts and ideas on this matter for they are most appreciated.

Nah I don't think so; he was still be his arrogant, pig headed, selfish self. Besides, the imperius curse is dark magic. Dark detectors would have picked up the curse the moment he was checked getting into the castle. Nah I don't think so, someone would have noticed.

If he was under an Imperius Curse, he would've killed Dumbledore without hesitation.
All of his abnormal behavior during the schoolyear can easily be connected to the task he was given - a task beyond his abilities, which he struggled to complete.

No. At least I don't think so. He may be under the impish, desperate, grasping coward curse but then again, that may just be genetic.

No, I don't think he was. There was no general awakening like with most people under the Imperius curse. Plus his eyes never looked strange. And in the end he didn't kill DD, so unless he can defend himself against an Imperius Curse, I don't think he was.

This is a good thought, but like everyone else, I would have to disagree. In the middle of the sixth year, he seemed abnormally more pale and sicker. If he was under this curse then he would not know what he was doing, therefore not be worried about anything. Also, like El Verte Veritas said, he did not complete the task in the end. This would be impossible because he would have had to. Now onto what Bluezz had to say. I believe like Bluezz said, that Draco would have just walked up and killed Dumbledore without stopping, or being to much of a coward like he did atop the tower.

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yes i think he was not, i dont think that vl would want him to have a blank mind and feel good the whole time, i think that it was a punishmnt, and vl wanted malfoy to feel the pain of trying to kill dd, and know that it was impossible and that his mother would die, i also remember in ootp when the girl is imperious(ed) by kingsley that her eyes went slightly out of focus, and dracos arent in the book.

well if Draco Malfoy was under the imperious curse don't you think he would have killed him instead of holding it off to talk to Dumbledore i mean if he was under the imperious curse he would have walked in the room dumbledore was in and he could have said Avada Kedavra and that could have been that i don't think he was under the curse.

it all looked as if he was doing it on his own free will, unlike madem rosmerta.

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i would also have to disagree because we remember that draco's mother was also very upset about her son's task in chap.2 when she asked snape to help him.
1. he wouldnt need help if someone was controlling his every move.
2. i doubt his mother would have let anyone put an imperius curse on him.

[font=Comic Sans Ms]nah! i just dont think he was under the imperius curse ,because if he would have been he wouldnt have been worrying about voldermort killing his family , would he?. He was definitely acting at his own free will

No. He agreed to something in an emotional moment (he was angry about what happened to his father, and wanted to take it out on someone, and he was proud about being asked to undertake such an important task). But then he was hit by the reality of what he actually had to do and he struggled with that because, as nauseating and horrible as he is, he isn't really an evil person.

I dont think so. With all the time snape and the rest of the staff was around him soneone would have noticed. I think saddly draco just did on his own will (well somewhat, there was the whole LV telling him to thing). Nice thought though!

Draco under the Imperius curse? It can't be possible!
Do you remember Krum under this curse in GoF? Draco is quite different. I mean, he thought too well about what he might do and then he cried with Murtle cause his situation.
If he were under the Imperius curse this episode wouldn't happen.

I DO THINK THAT HE WAS PUT IN UNDER THE IMPERIUS CURSE BY SNAPE, WHEN HE CAME TO KNOW ABOUT THE PLAN DRACO HAD MADE TO GET THE DEATH EATERS INTO HOGWARTS. (BUT I THINK HE HAD STARTED FIGHTING IT.)THAT IS THE REASON HE COULD NOT KILL DUMBLEDORE.

No Draco was not put under any Imperious Curse. If he had been he could not have thought for himself (someone else would have been doing that for him) No he was doing everything of his own free will. He knew what he was doing from the get go. His mother would not have allowed anyone to put her son under an influencing curse at all. He chose this path himself, and at times he was scared out of his wits about going through with it, but it was all about family. Which seems to be something the Malfoys are all about anyway. If Draco had been under a curse he would have outright Dumbledore, but he did not, he got scared (maybe because he has heart after all) and therefore Snape had to complete the task for him. Afterall Snape made the Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa to do the task for Draco in the event that Draco did not complete it, in the end saving Draco's hide from the ultimate death by Voldemort.

I say absolutely not because the only reason Voldemort told him to kill Dumbledore is to get even with his father. Also I think Voldemort knew he would mess up so he (or anyone) did'nt need to use the imperius curse on him.In other words there was no imperius curse on Draco Malfoy.Plus he was thinking freely but he would'nt be thinking (or acting) freely. But someone would be doing that for him. Because if you ask me he was being his normal, arrogant, snobby, pure-blood maniac, unimperiused, self.Thus I scoff at this subject. Scoff! Scoff! Scooooof!

It is highly unlikely that Draco was under the imperius curse simly becauase of the way he was acting. Im not incredibly knwoledgable about the way people act when under the imperius curse but logically i doubt they would behave the way he did.

I don't think he was under the Imperius Curse. He was sort of arrogant and selfish at first, and sort of proud of being a Death Eater but after a while he gets sort of scared. Can your emotions change like that when you're under the Imperius Curse? Can you talk to ghosts out of your own free will? I really don't think so. If he was really under the Imperius Curse, he would have done a better job of hiding what he was.

Of course not. People would have noticed if he was. Plus he would have killed Dumbledore if he was.

I don't think he was. Otherwise, he would have been able to kill Dumbledore sooner, and not have his emotional breakdowns. I think the moments he seemed lost and scared were the times he started reflecting on what he had to do and became very stressed. It couldn't have been easy to have to go through that. I don't know why he wasn't Imperiused though. It would have made things a lot easier. Maybe Voldemort wanted the Malfoy's to suffer. Maybe someone would have noticed.

No he wasn't under the imperius curse in my opinion because when Harry looks at the memory Snape gives him before he dies Dumbledore and snape are speaking of all the Dark lords plans and how dumbledore and snape will make them look like they have succeeded such as asking Draco for help and whatnot. Also yesBRoyals youre correct on the fact that he was having a lot of stressful times and breakdowns and im not 100% sure on this but i dont think Voldemort would make someone stressed like that via the imperius curse he would do it by other means.

There's no way Draco was under the imperius curse. He broke down and was under so much stress it was destroying him. If he was under the imperius curse he would have just been doing the task blindly. It wouldn't stress him out. Not to mention, as many have already said, he would have killed Dumbledore if he had been. Before that could even have happened though someone would have noticed he wasn't himself.

I don't think Draco was under Imperius. I think he would have been far more driven to succeed. He seemed at times disinterested in his task for the Dark Lord. He really didn't seem like he wanted to succeed but more like he was trying to buy time for himself while putting forth some pretty lack luster attempts to kill Dumbledore.

I believe that if Draco had been under Imperius he would have been willing to be reckless to complete his mission even if he had to attack in the Great Hall.

I don't think Draco was under the Imperius curse because he was stressed and sure of himself. He didn't act like an imperiused person, for example Barty Crouch Snr, who acted normally until he started to fight the curse.
Draco didn't need to be imperiused to kill Dumbledore. He wanted to prove himself and also, the threat of Voldemort murdering his whole family would have been enough to make sure he succeeded.

If he would have been under the imperius curse, the task of killing Dumbledore would have been just that. A task. As it was, LV wanted to punish Lucius for his failure in retrieving the prophecy, so he wanted Draco to feel everything. And he did, he felt fear. He was told that he and his family would be killed if he didn't do it. That would drive anyone forward, no matter how unpleasant the task. LV knew that Draco wouldn't have been able to do it in the end, hence Narcissa's unbreakable vow. Even Snape said that something like, "He intends me to do it in the end." Like it's been said in nearly every other post in this thread, if Draco had been under the imperius curse to kill Dumbledore, he would have done it the first chance he got with Avada Kedavra, not the fancy ways he tried.

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