[HPforGrownups] Why is AK unforgiveable

[Christopher Nuttall]

No: HPFGUIDX 45139

Hi, I'm not sure I agree with your idea because surley Moody would have mentioned something when he was teaching about it.  I suspect that AK is unforgivable because it is the only (this strikes me as odd, but it seems to fit in-canon) spell that has to be used with deliberate intent to kill.  If you use AK, you are going to commit murder anyway. and you know that right from the beginning.  AK is not an accidental death.

Chris


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sgarfio 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:57 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Why is AK unforgiveable


  Ooh ooh, I just had an idea.  This ties into with the recent posts 
  that have speculated that AK is Unforgiveable because the victim's 
  soul is captured, therefore depriving the victim of any kind of 
  afterlife, such as ghosthood.  If Voldemort AK'ed Baby Harry and the 
  curse rebounded on him, where would Voldemort's soul go?  Into his
  own wand?  Into Harry?  Nowhere?  Of course we don't know the 
  mechanism by which the soul is transferred, but here's what I'm 
  thinking:  Normally, the curse would go out of the wand to the
  victim, grab the victim's soul, and bring it back into the wand.  But 
  what if the curse bounces off of the victim, as it did with Baby 
  Harry?  Now the curse goes from Voldemort's wand to Harry, bounces 
  back to Voldemort *empty-handed*, so to speak, and grabs Voldemort's 
  soul.  Now it's as if the victim has initiated the curse, like light
  bouncing off a mirror.  Since Baby Harry had no wand, there would be 
  no place for Voldemort's soul to go.  It wouldn't be captured, but 
  neither would it still be housed in his body, and his body would die.  
  This is not a normal state for a soul; it must be housed in something, 
  which is why Voldemort had to inhabit other bodies to survive.  Having 
  to house two souls is not what bodies are built for, so they burn out 
  after a short time.

  My apologies if this just reiterates something somebody else has 
  already said; I'm still quite new here, but this was something of an 
  "aha!" for me. :-)

  Sherry




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