Survival of AK

[kizor0]

No: HPFGUIDX 113356

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> 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.

I'm with Geoff. If the AK's unblockability would mean that an AK
always succeeds, then the battle in the Department of Mysteries would
have consisted entirely of people pointing their wands around and
yelling "Avada Kedavra!" Worse - taking the implications to their
logical conclusion - someone could become an extremely effective
assassin by sitting around on the opposite side of the planet, spying
on people via some magical means and firing AK's at them clear through
the Earth's crust.

An AK's 'unblockability' might mean that no protegos, deflections or
reductions in power work. It quite definitely means that if one
connects there's nothing to be done. What it clearly doesn't seem to
mean is that it cannot be dodged or absorbed by something else.

Which lends more power to my idea of enchanting stones to swirl around
you and throw themselves in the path of incoming curses, but that's
another story entirely.

- Kizor