AK the most dangerous curse? / Abracadabra?

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This is a question that bugged me since the moment I read it in the pages of 
the book.  I can even come up with some things that are worse than the 
outright killing of someone, and I'm not as morbidly screwed up as the dark 
Wizards of the Potterverse.  true, the unblockability (like my new word?) of 
the Avada Kedvarda curse is pretty bad, but still, I would rank the cruciatus 
above it, especially considering what it did to Neville's parents.  Also, 
there are many curses that a person cannot block against.  Hexes, which have 
been mentioned in the books, are cast from afar by concentrating on a person, 
and would be very hard to block unless you were paranoid like Moody.  Even 
though there has been no mention of VooDoo in the books, it probably does 
exist in the potterverse, and some of the things done with voodoo dolls are 
much worse than the outright killing of someone, especially since the victims 
of Avada Kedavra do not seem to be in horrendous pain, like with the 
Cruciatus curse.

Now, I know I am not the first to say this, but isn't Avada Kedvada sound a 
whole lot like the abracadabra we are all used to hearing?  It took me so 
long to stop myself from thinking abracadabra when I read it.  Has anyone 
welse noticed this?  Or am I just crazy?

-Scheherazade


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