[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 3173

[the firey chasm from whence it came]

No: HPFGUIDX 66732


>2 How come Dumbledor does not do something to stop the
>horrible,
>most evil, truly terrifying Bellatrix?

He was probably too preoccupied with the even more evil Voldemort. A great 
wizard has to keep his priorities straight, you know. ;)

>And
>how come all the Aurors could not defeat and
>completely subdue the
>Deatheaters?

Because then the series could have ended with the 5th book!

>3 The Death Eaters on the whole are a bit confusing.
>First of all,
>not all of them even think of using Avada Kedavra...

Maybe JKR just wanted to use other spells. For the sake of variety. Who 
knows? Just because you're a DE doesn't necessarily mean you're 
intelligent. Sure, using AK might have been smarter, but keep in mind that 
these are all purebloods and therefore, inbred. And you know what they say 
about folks who marry their cousins...;)

>Dolohov,
>supposedly really evil, jinxes Neville into tap-dance?
>It's almost a
>joke!

Yeah, that is kind of funny, come to think of it. I don't know. This is a 
battle scene though and I suspect that people aren't always at their most 
logical when they're in a battle situation. Possibly he just said the first 
spell that came to his mind.


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>
>Do all DE's have the ability to AK?

I would think so, but we don't know that for sure. It is a "dark art", and 
you'd think they'd have learned all the basic Dark Arts from V. On the 
other hand, it's possible that they can't use AK without V.'s 
authorization. Perhaps they can only kill on his orders. We don't really 
know that much about the command structure of the DEs, or what their 
overall strategy tends to be.

~dream