[HPforGrownups] Re: How would Harry have killed Sirius in PoA?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 49719



Alexander wrote:

> 
>   Well, when I was 13 and went to school, I could definitely
> *not* make a machine-gun. Still, I knew enough to make a
> good sharp dagger. Similarly, I lacked knowledge to make a
> proper dynamite, but I knew enough to make trinitroglycerine
> (or how it is called in English, dammit ;). So while 13 year
> old Harry doesn't know Avada Kedavra, it doesn't mean he
> knows *no* spells that could kill a person... especially a
> wandless and defenceless (as Harry thought ;) person.
> 

Pointing a wand at someone with intent to kill and no knowledge of a
spell to do the job is like pointing an unloaded gun with intent to
kill.  If I were Sirius and knew that Harry had not learned any
dangerous curses yet, I might be tempted to say "What are you going to
do?  Spank me with your wand?"  Sirius however could not be sure what
spells Harry knew and even a bad case of Jelly Legs might be enough to
make him pause.

(I had a bad case of jelly legs once.  Inner ear infection. Kept falling
over. No fun at all)

Jazmyn