Moaning Myrtle's House (bit spoile/Re: Can it be Impedimenta? Was: An AK Puzzle

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 134727

Roxanne said:

"Well she's certainly whiny enough to be a slytherin.
 
I found it interesting that Malfoy and her developed a relationship.   In HBP 
we see Malfoy as more vulnerable and insecure than ever before.   Viewing him 
in this light it's easy to see how he and Myrtle might have some  things in 
common.  Being from the same house might have been part of what  got them 
talking in the first place."

We've been led to believe that Myrtle was Muggle-born. "But I know one ting: last tme the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a Mudblood died."  (COS pg 167, Can Ed)  Draco Malfoy was told that much by his father, but wasn't told much more because it would "look suspicious" if he knew too much.

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Merrylinks said: "There is another element of Snape's AK curse which doesn't ring true. 
We see the green light, but we don't hear the rushing sound. When 
Voldemort killed Frank Bryce, it says, "There was a flash of green 
light, a rushing sound, and Frank Bryce crumpled. He was dead before 
he hit the floor." In the account of Snape killing DD we only see a 
green light, and there is no mention of a rushing sound."


There was no rushing sound mentioned though when Cedric was killed.  "A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the words to the night: 'Avada Kedavra!' A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him..." (GOF pg 553 Can Ed)  The swishing noise, of course, being the wand cutting through the air, not the rushing sound heard when Frank Bryce was killed.

However, when Fake!Moody performed the Avada Kedavra on the spider, there was: "There was a flash of blinding green light, and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air - instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead." (GOF 191 Can Ed)

Perhaps it is something to do with the power of the wizard performing the AK?  Mind, I just re-read the ones LV sent at DD in OotP, and there doesn't appear to be any 'rushing sound' there, either.  Was he not really trying to kill DD in the MoM, or has his power somehow been diminished?


And, just for good measure...a few funny lines...:
"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."  What a joy Flitwick is!
The new Gryffindor pasword: Abstinence.  JKR does have a sense of humour doesn't she?

CathyD
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