Harry and Black in Shrieking Shack

[francienyc]

No: HPFGUIDX 43008

With regards to Harry using his wand to kill in the Shreiking Shack, 
I think Christi's "adrenaline magic" theory is an interesting one.  
Obviously, Harry doesn't know about Avada Kedavra so he can't kill 
Black in the most "common" way.  However, I think the "how" is not 
the important part, it's that Harry wants to kill Black in the first 
place.  From a literary standpoint, these books are all in 3rd person 
subjective point of view, and so we are limited to seeing what Harry 
sees although he doesn't tell the story himself.  Ergo, Harry only 
knows that he wants to kill Black, he doesn't have a plan because 
he's not thinking but feeling, and so we only see his emotional 
reaction.

I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I think that it's important to 
look at the mechanics of the book i.e. how the story is told.  If we 
realize it's all from Harry's point of view only, what may sometimes 
seem as an inconsistency could just be Harry's limited perspective 
and knowledge.  

Caroline