The Killing Curse

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77120

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arcturusfelire" 
<carlpelleg at a...> wrote:
> I have been a member of this group for a while now but I haven't 
had 
> any questiones or any thoughts to add. Well now I do.
> 
> My question is what is the underlying nature of the Killing Curse.
> 
> Does it just kill, like if somebody was shot. I ask this because 
if 
> it just kills a person then it could be used as a legal method for 
> giving the death penalty or if you want to put somebody who is 
sick 
> and will die anyway out of their missery.
> 
I just remember Crouch/Moody saying in GoF that it takes a powerful 
lot of magic to make the AK work, and that the whole class could 
point their wands at him and say it, and it probably wouldn't do a 
thing.  Where this magic could come from, he doesn't explain, but I 
suspect that it would have to be from Hate.  The Killing Curse is 
part of the Dark Arts, after all.  When you AK someone, it's almost 
like hating them to death; I don't think it could ever be performed 
compassionately.  I don't know if you could even perform it 
DISpassionately, as a judge would, impartially sentencing a criminal 
to death.  It seems to me that the AK is evil from its root.

Wanda