About AK and death

[bookraptor11]

No: HPFGUIDX 45281

Sorry if this has been dealt with before, I generally lurk and am 
sure I can't have read every post on this subject.

What I seem to be hearing in what I have read is questions of why AK 
is unforgivable, and if Dumbledore would use it on Voldemort, and 
also why Crouch authorised aurors to use it against DE's.  Since I 
haven't read anything that matches my take on the AK, thought I'd 
give it here.

I don't think AK is the only way to kill a wizard, though since it is 
unblockable it is probably the most effective. What makes AK 
unforgiveable is not that it kills someone, but that the killer then 
has possession of his victim's powers, or life force, and thus is 
able to enhance his own wizarding powers.

That is why, in GOF's graveyard scene, we see Harry's wand drawing 
the shades of his victims out of Voldemort's wand.  I think with 
wizards he gets both life force and wizardly powers.  Even life force 
must be important, or why would he waste AK on muggles?  If Harry 
could have kept the connection going, V's father and grandparent's 
would have been the last shades to appear.  

I couldn't find it in GOF, but it would be significant if Wormtail 
brought Voldemort his wand. Perhaps it was having it, plus the 
taking of Bertha Jorkin's life force that helped Wormtail and 
Nagini restore him to that baby form.

Dumbledore does wish to see Voldemort dead, but not with the evil of 
becoming, or letting Harry become, a parasite who feeds off someone 
else's life force.  The fact that Crouch would authorise AK for his 
aurors as a way to even the odds shows how good can be corrupted.  It 
is probably why Dumbledore has carried on the fight largely 
seperately from the MOM.

I haven't checked GOF for this, but I believe though it said Moody 
did kill as a last resort, it never mentions him using the AK.  I 
have a feeling he wouldn't be so close to Dumbledore, or been allowed 
to teach if he had.

When Harry released those shades, I hope that means they were freed 
for good from V.  With all the people Voldemort has AK'd in his long 
life, his power probably wasn't reduced significantly.

Donna