@g33k,
While I may have misremembered (I can't find the specific WOJ), I don't think it's improbable that Harry would have been able to do a mini-Darkhallow. I think that Harry's been tempted to do something like that several times from the very beginning. I'll add a description of the very first time that this has happened in the end of Storm Front below here. For context, Harry has just driven up to Victor's house and he's thinking about his past brush with Dark Magic, the suspicions he's gotten from the White Council, and how slighted he feels.
[Harry] could kill the Shadowman, now, before he knew I was here. I could call down fury and flame on the house and kill everyone in it, not leave one stone upon another. I could reach out and embrace the dark energy he had gathered in this place, draw it in and use it for whatever I wanted, and the consequences be damned.
When I look at the part that I italicized for emphasis, Harry is pretty clearly thinking about a Darkhallow-type action. While he isn't discussing absorbing the power of ghosts permanently, he is pretty clearly discussing using the dark emotional energy to power a destructive spell. Harry has also made it clear at other points in the series that doing things like this affects the practitioner. I think that this is what evil Harry did in the end of Grave Peril. Evil Harry absorbed the emotional energy of Bianca's building then lashed out at Bianca with it. Our Harry summoned ghosts then pointed them at Bianca. My memory isn't perfect though so I might have messed something up.