How would Harry have killed Sirius in PoA?
Kelly L. <kethlenda@yahoo.com>
kethlenda at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 13 18:56:38 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 49732
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.
Me:
And it's even possible that Harry had at least heard of AK.
Hermione knew of it, and knew that it was one of the three
Unforgivables. Admittedly, Hermione usually knows more
history, etc., than the others. But it's possible that Harry had
heard of a curse that killed people and was willing to make an
attempt to cast it. We don't know that he had never heard of it
before the DADA class in GoF, we just know that he didn't realize
his parents had been killed with it.
Kelly L.
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