Sirius in Shrieking Shack

[Julie Balfour]

No: HPFGUIDX 23981

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

1) Levitate something heavy and drop it on the victim from a height. 
> (Similar to Ron levitating the troll's club and accidentally 
bashing 
> the troll on the head with it).
> 
> 2) Conjure up ropes (as we have seen various adult wizards to, to 
> tie someone up), conjure them tied around the victim's neck, pull 
> tight.
> 
> 3) Conjure up a nice soft fluggy pillow and conjure it 
> pressed over the victim's face.
> 
> 4) Conjure up an ax and levitate it to whack the victim in the head.
> 
> 5) Transfigure part of the wall of his aorta (that is the big 
artery 
> that leaves the heart and soon splits into separate arteries toward 
> the upper and lower body) into Kleenex (tm). Between the wetness of 
> the blood it carries and the pressure of the blood it carries, the 
> Kneelex will soon dissolve or tear, and the victim will die of 
> internal hemmorhage. (My favorite: I wrote a fic in which someone 
> commits suicide this way, except it was sand rather than klnnex)

Oooh! I like some of these - the reason I would make a rubbish witch 
is that I have no imagination. However, I'm not sure how adept Harry 
is yet at conjuring things up - in the classes up to this point (that 
we have been privy to) I don't recall them being able to make things 
appear out of thin air.  (As an aside - which lesson would they learn 
that in anyway? Charms?) The transfiguration one seems to difficult 
as well - they are still on hedgehogs to pincushions at this stage 
aren't they?

I take your point entirely that there are many ways that he could 
have killed Sirius, I suppose I just got caught up in the idea that 
he was going to use an actual spell and I remember reading it for the 
first and thinking even then that he simply doesn't know enough magic 
to be able to do any lasting damage - there's only so 
much 'stupefying' that a young boy can do...

Julie B, thinking that Catlady must write some pretty morbid fanfic...