The Unforgivable Curses on animals?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 95074

Ffred wrote:
> 
> 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!


Potioncat:
Well, it's possible that AK is used in this way.  It would seem 
reasonable, unless there is some Magic that makes it dangerous to the 
caster of the spell. We really don't know.

However, we don't know that is the spell Severus uses on the flies.  
BTW, I once saw a  post that thought this was cruelty on his part.  
As someone who grew up in South Carolina where windows were kept 
open, I don't see a bit of cruelty in it.

Potioncat