OOP-Harry & Unforgivables

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 66381

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vesania_aeterno" 
<loupsdeguerre at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> 
wrote:
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> > Some of us are upset that Harry attempted the Crucio spell. . . 
Has 
> > it hit anyone else that, due to the prophecy, Harry is going to 
> have 
> > to -- HAVE to, no choice in the matter -- use Avada Kedavra?
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> > And, how do you learn how to do that? How do yolu practice?
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> > Bohcoo
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> Well, Harry's not only used the Cruciatus Curse but thought about 
> using it before (on Snape). He did manage to cast it without any 
> practice and though it didn't work well (though, really, it worked 
> admirably for a first try) it did work. The difference is that if 
> Avada Kedavra worked *at all* it'd have done its function and 
killed 
> Voldemort (or whoever Harry is aiming it at).
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> I fully expect Harry will use the curse, though not necessarily on 
> Voldemort (as that might backfire). Harry's natural (or perhaps 
> taught by the Dursleys) tendencies are showing through and with the 
> loss of his idealisation of the his father and the death of Sirius 
he 
> had very little reason left to be a 'good kid' and follow the rules 
> (or social conventions). Not that I think he's going to be using 
the 
> curse left and right but I don't think he'd have a moral problem 
> doing it. Remember, he only saved Pettigrew because Pettigrew said 
> that his father (James) wouldn't have let him (Peter) be killed. 
That 
> reasoning? Not going to fly anymore. Harry's seen what his father 
is 
> capable of doing out of mere boredom. 
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> Sirius or Dumbledore might have been able to reason him but, of 
> course, Sirius is dead and Dumbledore has been shown to be quite 
> capable of screwing up. Harry doesn't trust Dumbledore half as much 
> anymore and therefore Dumbledore has lost a lot of his hold on him.
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> However, I don't think he'd necessary *have* to use Avada Kedavra. 
> After all, he might want Voldemort to suffer first. 
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> - Andrea.

Aren't there any other ways to kill Voldemort?  Like chopping off his 
head or something?  Or does everything have to be done magically?

Tamara