Survival of AK

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No: HPFGUIDX 113902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

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> Crouch!Moodys actual words:-
> 
> "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter-
> curse. There's no blocking it."
> 
> So it can't be blocked either, 

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And yet ... we've seen it blocked several times now - gravestone in 
GoF, when fired by LV at HP, priori incantatem when wands 'lock' 
(yes, a sepecial case) and in the MoM (OotP) by a statue, the 
scurity guard's desk and Fawkes the pheonix.

Just as LV is the 'worst ever' wizard, but in fact keeps bungling 
his attempts to 'get' Harry, AK seems to be worse than pathetic when 
it comes to trying to use it against HP (at least when LV casts it).

Hmmmm. As so often, I am left wondering when it is, in fact, the 
case that JKR's narrative doesn't bear as close scrutiny as we nit-
picking readers try to exert (because it's about 'impression' more 
than 'cool, rational facts' - e.g. it always being the day before 
term starts, i.e. Sunday, on platform 9 & 3/4 outbound), as opposed 
to when it is, in fact, meaningful that things don't quite add up 
(e.g. scabbers the rat being >12 years old).