The Killing Curse

[arcturusfelire]

No: HPFGUIDX 77216

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arcturusfelire" 
> <carlpelleg at a...> wrote:

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> 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

Wanda

That is a good point about the need for hatred to actually cast the 
spell successfully. But I also thought he said that its because of an 
adults understanding of death that allows it to successed wherein a 
child casting the spell would fail. This might have been in a 
fanfiction I read, I am not entirely sure (lol).

Now, the remaining section of the post I can't really agree with. 
Unless I am reading it wrong, you thing dark magic is inherently 
evil. I do not see it that way. I see magic as naturally neutral and 
its human's that make it good or bad by our actions. I could easily 
take a lumos spell and blind somebody with its brilliance, or 
levitate somebody on to a piece of rock. I am killing them by my 
actions. I am using a 'light' spell and turning it 'dark'. Now, that 
is the way I see the killing curse if, and only if, it only kills the 
body. If it does something else that disrupts the natural cycle of 
life and death (like destroying the soul or banishing it to a wand, 
etc.) than it is unforgivable in all cases (except against voldemort 
as he is not human).

I am glad you have given your response. Cause it helps to see what 
other people are thinking.

CarlPelleg