Avada Kedavra and Beyond

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

No: HPFGUIDX 22575

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., BrownieH6 at a... wrote:
> 
> He worked for Voldemort.  He probably used a Killing Curse.  Come 
on, he has 
> to more powerful than we think he is...that's the reason they used 
*him* as 
> the Secret-Keeper.  They *thought* he was weak.  He obviously isn't 
as weak 
> and puny as we thought. 
> 
> Marie Antoinette
> 
> 
But a Killing Curse, even an area-effect version (see comments in 
related thread re: the D&D spell Wail of the Banshee) would leave 
unmarked bodies, not a massive crater. And no-one would have been 
injured, just killed.

Keith