[HPforGrownups] The Unforgivable Curses on animals?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 95070

Kneasy (quite correctly in my view) points out that
> 1. An Unforgivable' is only classed as such when used against another
> human being. You personally may  find this deplorable, but in canon
> JKR apparently doesn't. IMO this is deliberate. It warns the reader
> that the WW is not a fluffy bunny environment.

and

> 4. If DADA means anything, it means studying Dark Magic in order
> to counter it. That means *it must be demonstrated* otherwise you're
> back to Umbridge's "you can get it all you need to know from books"
> version of the subject,  which, again from canon, is considered to be
> a totally  ridiculous idea.

Here's an interesting implication which follows from the above.

>From the books, we could easily form the impression that the AK is a spell
which only a very few wizards can use: mainly DEs and Aurors.

Not so. If it's entirely acceptable if used in the butchery field, it means
that pretty much every young wizard or witch who enters the butchers' or one
of the farming guilds learns AK as part of their training, and uses it
regularly in their work. It's a routine agricultural spell, not something
whose name is only whispered in an undertone.

Probably explains the young Snape swatting flies in his bedroom. He found
the spell in an old copy of the Farmer's Manual!

Cheers

Ffred

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