PoA: How would Harry kill Black?

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 30211

Krolik wrote:

> 
> In PoA, Harry aims his wand at Black with the intention of killing 
> him. How exactly does he think he will do it? We get the impression 
in 
> GoF that Harry does not know about Avada Kedavra at this point. 


I always found this puzzling as well.  Harry did not know Avada 
Kedavra in PoA, and I don't believe he knows it now.  (In GoF, he 
doesn't attack Voldemort with Avada Kedavra, but instead attempts to 
disarm him.)

So what spells does Harry know by PoA?  He can levitate things and  
shoot sparks, I believe.  So the only plausible way I can think of 
for Harry to kill Black would be quite grizzly:  repeatedly 
levitating Black and dropping him on his head.  Yuk!

Cindy