AK Stealing Souls

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 35819

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ftah3" <ftah3 at y...> wrote:
<snip: theory on inner workings of AK>
> I guess I'm suggesting is that perhaps the evil involved in the use 
> of AK isn't a one-way street.  Perhaps it is an active evil, just as 
> the mother-love that saved Harry had to become an active thing also ~ 
> it had to become a power in and of itself, affecting in this case 
> Harry, in order to work.  Soooo...what if part of the reason that 
> Voldemort survived the rebounded AK, and survived in such mysterious 
> and bizarre form is because his use of this Unforgivable Curse 
> actually, physically & magically, twisted his very being in some 
> way?  And the Unforgivable classification is due in part to 
> foreknowledge of this eventuality?
> 
> Mahoney

I'm not altoghether sure I've followed your theory from the beggining 
to the end, so feel free to disagree with what I'm about to say.

The last question is easy: No, there was no foreknowledge of what 
happened to Voldie after the rebounded curse hit him, since two 
first-timers occoured at that time: for the first time someone survived 
to the AK curse, and, thus, for the first time someone was hit by a 
rebounded AK course. If there was no foreknowledge, it cannot be part 
of the definition of "unforgivable curse". Anyway, even allowing it to 
be true (as in "it was known by the sages of ancient times" or 
whatever), I don't see how that would tie with the other two 
unforgivable curses, which are not known to rebound.

Of course, this train of thought takes us back to square one: what 
common characteristic have those three curses have that no other spell 
has? For some time (two or three pages) I thought they were unstopable, 
but we've since been told that any amount of people can throw the 
Imperious curse off. Thus, my on theory (a variation of the original) 
right now says that "unforgivable curses are those spells that cannot 
be countered by any magical mean". No amount of wand-weaving will stop 
any of the three from reaching it's destiny (phisical means are still 
useful, like getting behind a gravestone, as are psiquical means, like 
the one seen in the Imperious). Harry has never told us if he's learnt 
shield magic (protective magic), but I assume some must exists, since 
all wizards have innate shielding capabilities (à la bouncing 
Longbottom), and it seems only natural that when they started 
developing magical capabilities in antiquity they started by 
strengthening their own innate powers. Anyway, the theory is still at 
infant stage, so feel free to disagree or colaborate.

Hope that helps

Grey Wolf