[HPforGrownups] Re: Do you think Harry could cast an Avada Kedavra?

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41766

Kristin wrote:

>  Yes that is what we are supposed to assume at this
> point...but I think Tim's question (or at least if it
> were mine) actually is asking...now that we know who
> Moody really was and that he had been cheating and
> helping Harry the whole time (including cursing other
> champions in the maze!) how do we know that he didn't
> spice up Harry's Accio with a little oumph! of his
> own? He may have cast Accio simultaneously, allowing
> the broom to travel the distance to Harry.

Still, whether Moody was helping the broom out any or not, Harry has used
the Accio successfully other times.  The dictionary came flying at him, but
of course that wasn't from very far away.  Still, it did work.  And in the
end of GoF he used it to summon the portkey and escape the graveyard.  So
Harry has mastered it.

Richelle