Well, that might not quite work. Harry canonically could resist the Imperius from his first time under it, and that was just because he found the commands 'stupid'. And he's mentally stable.
Now, imagine you put a girl who quite possibly has a hair-trigger temper under the Imperius - and, at any rate, is insane - and give her any command that she doesn't like...
If we follow Harry's line of thought, she's going to get annoyed, start fighting back, and at the very least disobey the command - and at worst, come roaring out from under the Imperius in a berserker rage. And since she's not in her right mind, it would be quite hard to tell what would set her off. Considering that Aberforth comments that "the flashes and bangs set her off" in the three-way duel, she likely had sensory difficulties as part of her magic-induced mental illness, which means that it wouldn't even have to be a command that jarred her out of her trance state - just random stimulus of just the wrong kind
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Now, imagine you put a girl who quite possibly has a hair-trigger temper under the Imperius - and, at any rate, is insane - and give her any command that she doesn't like...
If we follow Harry's line of thought, she's going to get annoyed, start fighting back, and at the very least disobey the command - and at worst, come roaring out from under the Imperius in a berserker rage. And since she's not in her right mind, it would be quite hard to tell what would set her off. Considering that Aberforth comments that "the flashes and bangs set her off" in the three-way duel, she likely had sensory difficulties as part of her magic-induced mental illness, which means that it wouldn't even have to be a command that jarred her out of her trance state - just random stimulus of just the wrong kind ( ... )
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