Way to stop the Avada Kedavra curse?

[keith.fraser at st-annes.ox.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 22550

Ah. I didn't think of that (I haven't been playing that long and 
didn't really know the thing about the relative caster levels). 
However, it does mean that another high-level wizard (say Dumbledore) 
would be able to stop AK if this theory is correct.

On a side note, I've thought about HP as compared to D&D a bit (with 
the idea of writing rules for some of the characters) and they really 
don't mesh. Rowling's wizards fall somewhere between D&D wizards (who 
must learn spells academically and prepare them out of their 
spellbooks each morning) and sorcerors (who do magic intuitively and 
spontaneously). Likewise the spells differ in important ways. For 
example, I couldn't think of a spell in D&D that compares to Avada 
Kedavra. There are many candidates, Finger of Death and Power Word 
Kill being the closest matches, but both of these can be stopped, 
either by Dispel Magic, Greater Dispelling, Spell Turning, Death 
Ward, counterspelling, spell resistance or (Finger of Death only) a 
succesful Fortitude save.

Any other D&D fans on the list?

Keith

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Danette Schardt-Cordova 
<captain_debrowe at y...> wrote:
> 
> Keith you just gave me a major brainwave.  I never
> thought of relateing the HP spells to D&D (no rotten
> fruit here I've been playing since I was 12) but
> you're right, however the flaw I have to point out in
> that is if you have a 12th level mage casting fireball
> and a 7th level mage casts fireball to cancel it some
> of the spell still gets through because the spells are
> not at equal levels.  Therefore if Voldemort (who I
> would say is at least 15th level if not better) cast
> the Killing Curse and ANY of our heroic trio tries to
> cast it back (I can't see any of them being above 7th
> level) there is still at least 8 levels worth of spell
> that can get through.  JMHO.
> 
> Danette
> 
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