Survival of AK

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113355

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:

Mac:
> All of this shows, and not for for the first time (since HP avoids 
> LV's AK by virtue of an intervening headstone in the graveyard 
scene 
> of GoF), that the 'unblockable' curse is, in fact, countered three 
> times, albeit by the most powerful wizard ever (DD I mean, though 
> you can substitute HP as possibly being even more powerful, not 
LV) -
>  the chapter is called 'the only one he ever feared' - though this 
> may mean HP take on LV rather than LV's on DD (or even HP?).

Geoff:
I have always taken the reference to being "unblockable" as referring 
to a counter-curse and that when the curse hit the headstone or the 
statue etc., its force was released on those and therefore, in a 
sense, the curse was fulfilled.

A silly analogy perhaps but suppose that someone drives a car at 
someone they hate with the intention of running them down and for 
some reason, they drive into a wall instead, then there was a result; 
damage was done but not the damage intended by the perpetrator.

Do I make my thinking clear?

Geoff
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