[HPforGrownups] The effects of Avada Kedavra

[Zorb17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32760

Grey Wolf said: 
"Now, my theory. In my opinion, the AK doesn't actually kill. It's 
effects are much worse: it wrenches the soul from the body. This 
explains the horror of the Riddles, who can feal what's happening to 
them when LV comes to call, and explains how is it that the spider 
doesn't actually suffer (in Woody's lesson): the spider cannot 
understand what's happening."

You asked for us to poke holes, and here's one that jumped out at me.  If AK 
simply takes the soul, how then would a victim be physically dead, as its 
victims are?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the same effect as a 
Dementor's Kiss?  Kiss victims, unlike AK ones, are still alive afterwards.  
In the Potterverse, soul-removal doesn't equal death.


Zorb


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