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

[malady579]

No: HPFGUIDX 43113

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. <<

and Richelle wrote:
> Surely this can't happen every time simultaneous curses are thrown.
 Or else what would be the point of duels?  Aren't the wizards
*supposed* to curse each other simultaneously?  I sure wouldn't want
to be the one standing around waiting until I got cursed to curse
someone else.  In Harry and Draco's duel, Draco started on two, not
waiting for the count.  As Betty said this could be something to do
with physics in the case of the curses deflecting each other.  Maybe
they were exactly in the wrong (or right for that matter) spot.
Suppose Harry had aimed at Draco's head and Draco at Harry's stomach.
 What would've happend?  Would they still deflect?  However it works,
I'm sure in wizard's duels they are bound to curse each other
simultaneously.  If they were always deflected it would be rather
dangerous to watch! <


Me:
In duels, the point of facing each other and firing at each other is
the show who is the fastest and surest shot.  Yes it is dangerous for
those standing around because of those facts.  The bullets/spells
could be misguided or even clash in the air.  I am not sure how big a
beam of magic light is suppost to be, but I assume, which might be a
big assumption, that it is as hard for them to clash as it is for
bullets fired at each other.

In CoS, Draco knows Harry is fast and definately faster than him.  So
Draco took the low brow approach of firing before the given agreed
time.  If in fact he had waited till three, I believe that Harry would
of definately bet him to the punch and get his spell off and hit Draco
before he even finished his spell.  But that is my views.

The question about aiming the wands differently and firing at the same
time is interesting.  I would like to say that it doesn't matter where
you aim for a curse to work, but that is shot down easily because of
the use of the wand to bind Ron's leg I assumes needs the direction
and area in which it needs to bind.  This might not be true though, as
the wand is just pointed to the area out of human nature to direct
objects like guns or tennis rackets.  In the muggle world it is
important that you aim to get the physical object to the right area
intended.  Maybe in the magic world, it is the intent behind the wand
that matters.  In leg-locker, does the wand need to be pointed at the
leg to work or just anywhere towards to body?  It seems the wand needs
to be pointing at the area of the person or object the wand holders
want the spell to affect and not the exact area it needs to hit.  The
area that a spell is intended is given in the spell.  Dumbledore just
"casually" waved his wand around and the tables changed into
sleepingbags.  He did not have to aim at all.

Maybe also it is all in how we picture the beams of light coming from
the wands.  Assuming they are straight lines of light and of the
thickness of the wand it comes from, it would seem that they would not
clash that much given the small target and that the beam of light
would be of the same angle of the wand it is shot.

I don't know.  I was not a physics or even science major it college,
so this is not my specialty.  It just seems that the whole point of
magic is to defy these given "rules" of our physical world.  Sorry if
I am way off.

Melody
Off to bake cookies