Harry's Ability to Perform the AK?

gelite67 gelite67 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 21 01:05:46 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 148497

Does anyone have any doubts about Harry's ability to perform the AK 
curse on LV?

In OOP, he barely has what it takes to perform the a barely-there 
Crucio curse on Bella, who informs him that righteous anger wouldn't 
hurt her for long and that you have to REALLY mean an Unforgiveable 
Curse, to enjoy causing pain.

Well, then, what does it take to "really mean" the AK.  Do you have 
to enjoy killing?  Because to me, Harry is full of love and righteous 
anger, not full of the desire to kill. I don't believe he would enjoy 
killing anyone, not even LV or Snape.  Oh, I know he hates Snape and 
certainly hates LV, but he also desired to kill Sirius in POA and 
couldn't do it (never understood how he would have at that point 
anyway, b/c he didn't know about any killing curses then).

So I wonder if Harry has what it takes at this point in the series to 
do the AK and if not, I wonder what will happen to change that.  It 
almost sounds too horrible to contemplate.

Angie







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