Avada Kedavra, or Going Out With a Bang

[apollovibes]

No: HPFGUIDX 125200


"mizstorge" wrote:
> 
> Any theories about the unusual effects of Avada Kedavra on the 
> Potters and Peter Pettigrew? When we've seen it used (in GoF at the 
> cemetary by Voldemort on Cedric and by pseudo-Moody in DADA class on 
> the spiders), there was no explosion. However, we have read about the 
> smouldering ruins at Godric's Hollow and about poor Peter being blown 
> to pieces. Because of Harry's recurring visions of green light, we've 
> assumed the spell used on the Potters was AK and I think we were 
> meant to assume AK was the spell used on Peter (of course, Peter just 
> transformed and scampered off, but whatever was done would seem to 
> have appeared to be AK to most of the Wizarding World)

The resulting explosion at Godric's Hollow was from the backfiring of
the curse.  The spell Pettigrew used probably wasn't the killing curse
at all, it was probably something more along the lines of a 'grenade'
type curse that resulted in a huge explosion.

The killing curse did break things apart and set things on fire in the
DoM, however.

"apollovibes"