HQ for the order- Curse Destructive Power

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76645

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Danger Mouse"
<dangermousehq at h...> wrote:
> Yairadubin:
> > Where was the HQ for the old ORDER OF TH PHOENIX?  Are they going
> > to relocate now that Sirius is dead, or did the owners of that place
> > die?
> 
> Claire:
> Perhaps the HQ was Godric's Hollow.  It would make sense, in a way, 
> that it was totally destroyed when LV killed Lily and James. ...
> 
> Dan:
> Unless, of course, The Potters' house was obliterated because of the 
> reversal of AK. 
> 

bboy_mn:

People keep wondering how the Death Curse could destroy a house.
Afteral, the people who are killed by the Death Curse are left unmarked.

But they are forgetting all the battle scenes including the ones in
the current book where spells that miss their target blast a chunk of
the wing off a stone angel, blast a crater into the floor where
Neville's hand had been just seconds before, where Dumbledore smashed
a door with a Stunning Curse when he stuns fake!Moody who is standing
behind the door, where Bellatrix Death Curse tears the head off a
metal statue.

Also, note that spells that the student DA's practice on each other
basically just do their intended task. The Impediment Jinx that just
slows things down in practice sessions, violently knocks people off
their feet under actual battle conditions. The magical intent behind a
curse determines it's distructive potential.

Point? Even spells that typically don't have a physically destructive
effect when they are on target, can become distructive when they are
off target, or are backed up with a vicious intent.

I would say that Voldemort's intent in killing Harry was about a
vicious and powerful as it could possible be, therefore, when it
rebounded it carried a huge potential for physical damage.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn