[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 3160

[Darrell Harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 66413

Message: 5
   Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:20:34 -0000
   From: "Tamara" <buffyeton at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OOP-Harry & Unforgivables

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com,
"vesania_aeterno" 
<loupsdeguerre at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo"
<sydenmill at m...> 
wrote:
> > S
> > P
> > A
> > C
> > E
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > And, how do you learn how to do that? How do yolu
practice?
> > 
> > Bohcoo
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> However, I don't think he'd necessary *have* to use
Avada Kedavra. 
> After all, he might want Voldemort to suffer first. 
> 
> - 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

 If you,ve ever seen the movie wizards then you know
there are other possible outcomes to how Harry can win.

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