[HPforGrownups] Re: AK the most dangerous curse ?

[Klei]

No: HPFGUIDX 46816



Grey Wolf wrote:

> Klei wrote:
> > IMO, this curse, the explosion one, didn't kill the wizards not
> > because of a shield but simply because
> > they are wizards.
> >
> > Katsmall the Wise
>
> If the spell used by Peter only affected muggles (and, so far, there is
> no reason to believe that there are such spells), Peter wouldn't have
> been able to fake his own death, since he's a wizard. He had to use a
> spell that could kill him, after all, or else it wouldn't make much
> sense to use it in the first place.

That is not what I meant.
As we all know, wizards have a much bigger life span, and are much less 
easily killed.
*Maybe*, the spell Peter used is a spell that can kill wizards, but 
Peter used it in low "volume", i.e.
didn't use it to full extent, strong enough it can kill muggles, yet not 
strong enough to kill wizards.

> In the line I started above, although we know that wizards are tougher
> than muggles, being able to survive unscathed punishment that would
> kill a muggle, this doesn't seem to aply to ofensive spells. AK,
> Cruciatus and Imperio are equal-oportunities: they affect equally
> muggles and wizards.

Of course they do. They can't kill a muggle'more' then they kill a 
wizard. It's the most that anything
can do!

> All other spells that have been tried in both
> species have been equally damaging to both (like the memory charm), and
> in fact, the wizards seem unimpressed by that fact (i.e. they don't
> mention that "we had to give him a low charge, because he's a muggle"
> or anything like it), although this could be put down to the deficient
> knowledge of muggles by wizards.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Grey Wolf

Let me just add that they could have not positively identified the spell 
(having only muggle widnesses),
and there could be a spell that only hurts muggles.
And Peter would use that so that Sirius Black is uninjured and thus 
people would think that he's the
caster.

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Katsmall the Wise
kela_bit at netvision.net.il


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