Lily's Last Labor of Love [Ghosts (James & Lily's) + AK]

[Petra Pan]

No: HPFGUIDX 45100

---"arcum42" <Arcum_Dagsson at c...> wrote:
> My personal theory is that Avada Kedavra
> causes the persons soul to
> evade their body and be sucked into the
> casters wand, leaving no
> ghost behind at all. If this is the case, that
> would give him an even
> better reason to go after Voldemort.

Heidi replied (#44993) with a recap of past
discussions regarding the AK, the logic of which
flows thus:

The AK is the only act of homicide that's
Unforgivable.

Therefore we can consider the AK to be more than
just the killing of one person by another.

This begs the question: how is the AK so special
that the WW finds it more unforgivable than other
methods of murder?

IF: Presence of ghosts in canon indicate the
    existence of life after death...
IF: Being AK'd keeps a soul from achieving
    ghosthood...
THEN: Death by AK prevents the victims from
    embarking on their Next Great Adventure.

I agree that this (if I understood Heidi
correctly) is very likely a big part of the
nature of AK.  Nevertheless, I am interested in
learning of other theories about the AK...can
anyone point me to threads or posts?  Or is the
above the only theory worth noting?

Though it makes a lot of sense, this theory does
not address the issue of how Lily managed to
thwart Voldemort's attempt to murder Harry...and
my interest in the AK stems from my interest in
just how Lily's sacrifice saved her son.

Since I view the oft-mentioned "mother's love" as
more the motivation than the mechanism, I am
still puzzling over the means by which Harry
became the Boy Who Lived...surely Lily is not the
only person to love someone facing the wrong end
of Voldemort's wand as much as she did.

So, what are the currently prevailing thoughts on
this matter?

On hiatus from Lurkdom (do intros expire?),

Petra
a
n  :)

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