Avada Kedavra effects on Vampires (and ghosts)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 22636

Rowena said:

<<The reading of the Avada Kedavra posts has got me wondering....  what
affect it would have on vampires (assuming that JKR's vampires are the
'undead' type of vampires) ?>>

Haggridd then said:

<<Interesting question:  What do you think would happen if the AK were cast
on Nearly Headless Nick?>>

Nick is not impervious to damage, as he was affected by the Basilisk in CoS
(see quote, below).   Since he's already dead, we could speculate that Avada
Kedavra would at least incapacitate him, but, as it is the Killing Curse, my
guess is that it would wipe him out altogether.  Ghosts are disembodied
spirits - perhaps AK would destroy the spirit?

As for vampires, anything defined as 'undead' or 'living dead', has some
sort of life, or it would be just...um, dead.  AK sounds a pretty final sort
of curse to me, i.e. if you had a bit of life left in you, it would take it.

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>From CoS:

"It was Nearly Headless Nick, no longer pearly-white and transparent, but
black and smoky, floating immobile and horizontal, six inches off the floor.
His head was half off and his face wore an expression of shock identical to
Justin's."

Neil

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