AK and Intent (was : Lily, LV and Harry at GH.)

[Hawke]

No: HPFGUIDX 113428

 "Lora" <lora at l...> wrote:
> Howdy.  I'm Lora and I'm new.  *hides from scary rules*
<snip>
 
Hi Lora! I'm new too! I'm Hawke BTW *waves*

> Hannah:
> > But AK is a spell that depends a lot on the intention of the one 
> > casting it.  When Lily's AK hits Harry, it doesn't kill him, 
because 
> > Lily's intention was to *save* Harry...
> 
> Lora:
> Is there anything in canon for the intention idea?  I know when 
Harry
> was trying to Crucio someone...Bellatrix, I think, she just mocked 
him
> and told him...*consults book* "You need to MEAN them, Potter!  You
> need to really want to cause pain--to enjoy it..." So perhaps if you
> don't "really want" to cause DEATH with an AK, something else would 
> happen?  

Well, we are told what happens if you try to cast AK and don't mean 
it, albeit from a slightly unreliable source. The Imposter Known As 
Mad Eye tells us almost the exact same thing--something along the 
lines of 'you could all take out your wands and say the words and I 
doubt I'd even get so much as a nosebleed. The Unforgivables require 
a lot of power and you have to mean it ' ( Can someone provide the 
actual quote? Book five, their first DADA class ) All this mention of 
exactly how to use AK gets me to thinking though...that's a lot of 
practical infomation on something that Dark. 

  Hopefully the 'missing scene' that has been promised to us in book 
six will clear up some of the questions regarding that night at GH. 
Her hints seem to point us in the direction of a 'What Really 
Happened That Night at GH' scene, but that's just my brilliant 
deduction, and isn't very solid.
 
            -Hawke