could AD use Avada Kedavra? Was Re: "the worse in" Snape/CAN one kill the other?

[angellslin]

No: HPFGUIDX 72028

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lisettethemagnificent" 
<trashcanjoy at 3...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Cezar T <drymusalastor at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 1. Do we have any guarantee that Dumbledore CAN use Avada Kedavra?
> (I'm not saying he WOULD have used it against LV in Oop, but maybe 
his
> good nature doesn't allow him to use it.)
> 
> When Bellatrix said "you have to mean it", I think she was refering 
to
> the matter at hand, the Cruciatus curse, rather than Avada Kedavra.
> cruciatas has only one purpose, to hurt someone worse than most of 
us
> can imagine. As Moody (well, Crouch, but I suspect he knew what he 
was
> talking about) said, you have to get up a lot of power to make Avada
> Kedavra work, and in the HPverse, power usually is tied to emotions.
> 
> I suppose what I am trying to say here is that I see only one 
purpose
> for Cruciatus, and that purpose is an evil one (and that is a heavy
> statement for me, who tries to see everything in grey). Avada 
Kedavra,
> on the other hand, may not need malicious delight in pain to sustain
> it. After all, Harry's righteous anger did hurt Bellatrix for a 
while.
> Perhaps purity of purpose and the need for Voldemort to die (or
> rather, the perception in the caster's mind) would be enough to get 
up
> the emotions to power the spell.
> 
> Personally, I don't think Dumbledore will ever use Avada Kedavra,
> though I am certain he is able to.
> 
> "lisettethemagnificent"

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Yes, I also agree that AD knows how to use Avada Kedavra. In the HP 
books, we are always told that a witch or wizard doesn't use Dark 
Magic, doesn't mean he or she can't. 

Given what we learn from HP books, AD is a very good-natured wizard. 
In CoS, when HRH were caught in spot where Mrs Norris had been 
petrified, Snape intended to punish Harry for "not being entirely 
trueful". But AD said "innocent until proven guilty". I can deduce 
that he must be a stong opponent against death penalty. He will not 
use death to punish his enemies, whatever how guilty they are. 

Angel