[HPforGrownups] Harry and the Avada Kedavra curse

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32262

frances_potteruk wrote:

> 
> I'm sorry if this has already been discussed, but I have been wondering
> just what curse Voldemort was planning to use on Harry after he killed
> Lily and James. It seems to me that it has always been assumed it was
> the Avada Kedavra curse and that Voldemort was trying to kill Harry,
> but does anyone actually know that this is the case?
> 

In GoF, Moody (Crouch jr.) states it's the AK curse:

Chapter Fourteen

"Not nice," he said calmly. "Not Pleasant. And there's no countercurse.
There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and
he's sitting right in front of me."

I would think that Crouch would actually know which curse V used on
Harry the first time. So I would think yes, it was AK curse. It could be
that Rowling gave us a red herring (am I using that term correctly?),
but I think it's unlikely. 

-Katze (who needs to get some work done!)