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The conflict kicks off because Voldemort shows back up on the scene and sets his sights on Harry. Unlike last time, the Dark Lord doesn’t take any chances, giving his Death Eaters free rein to put down anyone who gets in their way using the Unforgivable Curses. Of course, the movies can’t use the taboo spells as much as the books do, but they still show up their fair share. Here’s every Unforgivable Curse used in the Harry Potter movies and who pulls the trigger.
8) The Death of the Potters
The entire Wizarding World knows of Harry because he’s “the Boy Who Lived,” the one who survived an attack from Voldemort when he was just a baby. His parents, James and Lily, weren’t so lucky, as they both lost their battles against the Dark Lord when he cast Avada Kedavra, better known as the Killing Curse. While the attack itself isn’t shown in full in the movies, we do get to see Lily’s death in a flashback as a cloaked Voldemort dispatches her with the iconic dark spell.
7) “Mad-Eye Moody” Shows Off The Curses
Despite having firsthand experience with the deadliest of the Unforgivable Curses, Harry doesn’t learn about them until his fourth year. Mad-Eye Moody comes to Hogwarts as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and in a chillingly practical lesson, shows off all three of the curses on a poor, harmless whip scorpion. The strange moment becomes easier to stomach once it comes to light that Barty Crouch Jr. is posing as the famous Auror, but that’s no consolation to the scorpion.
6) Viktor Krum’s Nightmare
Viktor Krum finds himself on the wrong end of Imperio, the mind-control curse that has him enter a dream-like state where he doesn’t feel pain or emotion, during the Triwizard Tournament in The Goblet of Fire, becoming a pawn for the Death Eaters, who want Harry to reach the Portkey. While some wizards and witches are strong enough to break free of the curse’s control, Krum isn’t one of them.
5) Voldemort Gets His Revenge
Harry might have gotten the better of Voldemort when he was young, but the script is flipped in The Goblet of Fire. After the Portkey sends him to a graveyard, Harry finds himself face to face with the Dark Lord, who uses Crucio on him in a fit of rage. Harry’s already-awful night only gets worse from there.
