OOP-Harry & Unforgivables

[Verin Haley]

No: HPFGUIDX 66615

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<jsmithqwert>
IMHO, even if Harry or someone else was able to use AK successfully
against Voldemort (which I doubt because we have seen that one can
avoid it through prompt apparation a la DD), that would not _vanquish_
the Dark Lord forever.  The incident surrounding Harry's scar
demonstrates that physical death is not enough to rid the world of
Voldemort.  Harry will have to do something more profound and far more
powerful to ensure not only the physical, but also the spritual
destruction of Voldemort

<Verin>
First point: avoidance via apparation only works if you can apparate
in time.  If it worked in every situation, there would be a lot fewer
deaths from AK.  If Harry hits Voldemort from behind when Voldemort
doesn't know he's there or if Harry hits him from a range close enough
that the spell reaches Voldemort before he can react to the spell
being cast and apparate, then the spell would kill him.

Second point: the incident surrounding Harry's scar does not
*necessarily* indicate that if Voldemort's hit with AK, he won't
completely die.  Voldemort was hit by the *backlash* of the spell, not
the spell itself.  We don't know what would happen if he was hit
directly with AK.  Also consider *when* the attack occured: Halloween,
or Samhain.  According to celtic mythology, that's the time when the
dead return to visit their kin and the doors between this world and
the Otherworld are open.

My opinion?  AK on January 3rd would work just fine.  But I'd find
some way to keep his soul securely in his body when he died just to be
on the safe side.

-Verin