Digest Number 3173

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 66774

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, the firey chasm from whence it 
came <explodingstar at a...> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> ><snip>
> >
> >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

I can think of two other reasons that they weren't all using AK 
constantly.

1) What if they missed?  It would be really horrible to a DE to have 
his curse dodged or to miss and end up hitting a fellow DE.  V would 
not be happy if his DEs accidently killed each other.

2) Imposter!Moody tells us in GoF that AK must have "a powerful bit 
of magic behind it," or something to that effect.  Assuming that 
there is some kind of magic energy force or mana (which is a common 
element of magic throughout its much varied use in fictional 
literature), the DEs probably do not have the capacity to perform AK 
many times without time to rest and replenish the source within.

jsmithqwert