how Harry finally beats LV

[Partha Mukhopadhyay]

No: HPFGUIDX 91251

Lizvega:
>I agree with the theory that Harry will not use AK to
>kill LV, partly because, like you said, I don't think
>he'll be able to harness the joy in killing that is
>required to perform the spell. 

I think it was Carol who chimed in on this with a
thought about how cold-bloodedness, if not joy in
killing might also act as an activation threshold for
a successful use of AK. Both points noted, but I think
that there has to be other ways to 'achieve' AK.

That's partly due to the job descriptions of Aurors,
and I'm guessing Magical Law Enforcement/Trained Hit
Wizard types, some of who were authorized, at least at
the height of the first Voldemort War, to use any
weapon at their disposal, including AK, to take out
DEs. I'd hate to think they gained their ability to
successfully use the most unforgiveable of all the
curses from either a joy of killing, or sheer
cold-bloodedness (although I'm sure that was the case
for some of them). Rather, I think that there was
something of a "gotta do what you gotta do"
attitude/steel behind the acts *committed* by the
*good* guys during that first war.

(As has been mentioned, that attitude might explain
Wormtail's ability to dispatch of Cedric of GoF - he
did what he had to do under the circumstances.)

Given that, I don't see why JKR couldn't have Harry
take out LV through the use of AK; at that point of
the conflict, it's possible, maybe even likely, that
Harry and Voldemort will be in an all or nothing
situation. It'll be Harry and everything *good*,
standing against Voldemort and a *certain* reign of
evil terror (not just mere terror, mind you, it has to
be the evil kind). And Harry has exhibited flashes of
a pure rage of the kind that I can certainly see
fueling a successful AK, on multiple occasions.

Under those circumstances....I can see it happening. I
can easily imagine Harry using the last and worst, and
most importantly, only defense against the monstrosity
that is Voldemort. 

The only question then would be: having survived a
rebounded AK curse once, when he tried and failed to
kill Harry as a baby, how would Voldemort fare against
a killing curse successfully directed at him from the
wand of another wizard?

Partha




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