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The immense darkness in Harry in the DoM battle and how he uses what he's perceived about Voldemort's dynamic with his followers is fascinating:

“You need more persuasion?” she said [...] “Very well — take the smallest one,” she ordered [...] “Let him watch while we torture the little girl. I’ll do it.” Harry felt the others close in around Ginny. He stepped sideways so that he was right in front of her, the prophecy held up to his chest. “You’ll have to smash this if you want to attack any of us,” he told Bellatrix. “I don’t think your boss will be too pleased if you come back without it, will he?” [...] “Yeah,” said Harry [...] “Yeah, I’ve got no problem saying Vol —” “Shut your mouth!” Bellatrix shrieked. “You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood’s tongue, you dare —” “Did you know he’s a half-blood too?” said Harry recklessly. Hermione gave a little moan in his ear. “Voldemort? Yeah, his mother was a witch but his dad was a Muggle — or has he been telling you lot he’s pureblood?” (Beyond the Veil, OOTP)

His scar was on fire again, and he felt a surge of fury that was quite unconnected with his own rage. “And he knows!” said Harry with a mad laugh to match Bellatrix’s own. “Your dear old mate Voldemort knows it’s gone! He’s not going to be happy with you, is he?” “What? What do you mean?” she cried, and for the first time there was fear in her voice. “The prophecy smashed when I was trying to get Neville up the steps! What do you think Voldemort’ll say about that, then?” [...] “LIAR!” she shrieked, but he could hear the terror behind the anger now. “YOU’VE GOT IT, POTTER, AND YOU WILL GIVE IT TO ME — Accio Prophecy! ACCIO PROPHECY!” Harry laughed again because he knew it would incense her [...] He waved his empty hand from behind the one-eared goblin and withdrew it quickly as she sent another jet of green light flying at him. “Nothing there!” he shouted. “Nothing to summon! It smashed and nobody heard what it said, tell your boss that —” “No!” she screamed. “It isn’t true, you’re lying — MASTER, I TRIED, I TRIED — DO NOT PUNISH ME —” “Don’t waste your breath!” yelled Harry, his eyes screwed up against the pain in his scar, now more terrible than ever. “He can’t hear you from here!” “Can’t I, Potter?” said a high, cold voice. (The Only One He Ever Feared, OOTP)

Goading Bellatrix with what Voldemort confided in Harry about his background and his performance to his pureblood followers, and taunting her with Voldemort's violence (effectively responding to Bellatrix’s threats of torture with his own), especially after Sirius's death.

Harry's seen Voldemort using Crucio on his Death Eaters in GoF (Wormtail, Avery in the graveyard) and in OOTP gauges it from flashes of him with Rookwood, etc. ("His scar began to burn; he bit hard on his pillow to stop himself making a noise. Somewhere, he knew, Avery was being punished"). And obviously Harry was tortured by him too in GoF ("He’s got the Cruciatus Curse for causing pain," said Harry. "He doesn’t need anything more efficient than that.") and was lured to the DoM by a vision of LV Crucio-ing Sirius.

Harry initially attempts to use the Cruciatus on Bellatrix himself of course, in revenge for Sirius, and fails - and then plays on her fear of Voldemort and what he's witnessed of Voldemort's punishments and torture of his followers to antagonize her, laughs at her terror, and taunts her further when she starts pleading with Voldemort not to punish her.

Bellatrix refers to Sirius twice as "my dear cousin" in the DoM sequence, and then Harry refers to Voldemort as "your dear old mate" (knowing Voldemort replicates familial connection with his followers and witnessed him calling them his "true family" and "my intimate friends"/"my friends") and also "your boss". (Sirius also refers to Walburga as "my dear old mum" in this same book, who Harry immediately reads as being as violent as Umbridge and compares the two).

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