[HPforGrownups] Re: Lethal Harry

[heidit at netbox.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 40013

Greywolf wrote of the ways Harry could've killed Sirius in the shack:
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How? Well, "accio heart" is gruesome, but if it can be done, can be
very effective. Or you can Expelliarmus/Wingadium Leviosa his clothes,
effectively throwing him around the room until he's knocked out. Or
burn his clothes. Or engorgio his throat/tongue (those sweets the twins
create are VERY dangerous) until he dies from lack of air. Or... should
I continue? (I can probably can find a way to use any spell to have
dangerous consecuences to a human being, but not all of them could be
applied to the shack scene)***

And I have an addition, and a thought about AK.
First, the addition. The first spell we see ron successfully do is something that would've been fatal had he done it to a human - dropping a club on a head. While there's no club in the shack, Harry could've levitated that gorgeous and undusty bed and dropped it right on Sirius's head - someone with a wand might've been able to stop it, though.

Then again, Harry is still a bit in the Muggle take on life and death. But in the wizarding world, where people see ghosts daily, talk with them, even learn from them - there's no fear that there's only nothingness after death. Unless, as I suspect, the true reason AK is unforgivable - not because it causes death, but because it takes the soul and instead of setting it free for the next great adventure, captures it in the caster's wand in perpetuity.

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