AK Stealing Souls

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No: HPFGUIDX 35770


--------Laura Huntley Said:---------------
Yes, I go back and forth between this theory and my own.  Another 
idea may be that it is "unblockable", that is, if you have the power 
to use it, you can kill anyone and they don't have a chance -- 
therefore it is Unforgivable.

However, I think there's got to be something more to it.  As I 
stated in my first post, if there wasn't some special benefit to 
using AK, then why would the DE's be so fond of it?
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     While reading your post, Laura, I must agree that you do make 
very valid points- but something you said actually made another idea 
pop into my head regarding the theory I had originally talked about. 
You said two things, actually, and it explains everything I think. 
Or hope, at least:-) Like I said, I believe your theory is well 
thought out and definently has it's points, but here is why I think 
this theory holds up:
      You said, as the canon portrays it, that AK is unblockable. 
Once learned, it is unstoppable. No chance of survivial. Dead. Gone. 
Nada. Bye-Bye to all recipients('cept Harry, of course). Well, you 
also ask why would it be used if there wasn't a special benefit? 
But, at the same time, isn't that a benefit in and of itself? Hear 
me out for a moment- in SS, when Hagrid is in the hut-on-the-rock, 
he responds to Harry. Harry had said that the Dursleys told him his 
parents died in a car crash, and Hagrid responds something like "A 
car crash? Kill Lily and James Potter? Preposterous!"(I think that 
quote, however, is much closer to the movie version, but still, they 
both conveyed the same meaning). At the same time, when Neville was 
eight years old, as he tells it in SS, his Great-Uncle Algie dropped 
in from a window and he bounced all the way into the street, to 
their delight. This was Neville's first display of actual magical 
ability. And once again, in JKR's own interviews, a commonly stated 
fact is that Wizards live to be much longer than humans. From this, 
we can easily see that Wizards are much tougher than muggles, and 
can stand much more physical pain, possibly due to their magical 
natures. When Pettigrew blasts a hole in the middle of the street in 
PoA, Sirius is right next to him- they find in in the center of the 
crater, laughing his head off. So, he can withstand a strong enough 
blast that blows a crater in the middle of the street, kills 
numerous muggles, and he's still standing there, laughing. 
       Here is yet ANOTHER fact: not a single witch or wizard is 
killed in the novels by ANY other spell than AK. Think about it: 
Harry's parents, AK. (or so we assume, it's never stated but it 
appears that way with Priori Incantatum. If he had fireballed them 
to death, the reverse spell should have been a fireball, not their 
bodies.). Cedric- Ak'ed. Barty Crouch- I don't believe it stated any 
spell in specific. Now, from this I discount any killings by 
creature's abilities, I am referring only to spells here. There 
isn't one occurance, in my current state of memory, of any wizard 
death by magic by any spell other than AK. So, if it possible that 
maybe this is also the only spell that CAN kill a wizard? Maybe the 
inherent nature of magic- something mentioned by Dumbledore- 
disallows or prevents magic from killing any other wizard, because 
the magic in that person blocks it- except in the case of these 
three spells?
        I happen to think that this line of questioning is quite 
interesting, and a thanks to you Laura for continuing to discuss it!


-Vin