[HPforGrownups] WANDS: Harry's vs Voldemort: Let's get this straight.

[Betty Landers]

No: HPFGUIDX 43109


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From: "bboy_mn" <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 9:18 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] WANDS: Harry's vs Voldemort: Let's get this straight.
boyMN:
 NOT TRUE!
> > We have already seen Big_V put Harry under the Cruciatus curse, and
> without a doubt, if Harry hadn't reacted to the AK curse, he would be
> dead now. Kill by the 'brother wand' of Voldmort.
> > This unique effect, of which, the prior incantatum is merely a side
> effect, only occurs when they throw SIMULTANEIOUS CURSES.
> > Note, earlier in the story, Harry and Draco throw simultaneous curse
> and the curse hit in mid-air and are deflected off of each other. So
> there is always an unusual affect when simultanious curses are thrown
> against each other.
> 
I took the curses bouncing off each other as more a product of physics.  The angles were probably the same and when they collided, their direction changed--momentum and all that.
A similar thing would happen if you threw too balls and they collided in midair, wouldn't it?  Pick something less massive and the objects won't just fall once they collide; they'll bounce off each other and who knows where they'll end up.
Betty
Hard sciences, eurgh, brain taxers.